Re: Orinoco Gold 8470-WD on CF4
From: David Cary Hart (fedora_at_tqmcube.com)
Date: 07/31/05
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To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@redhat.com> Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 17:51:07 -0400
On Sun, 2005-07-31 at 09:36 -0500, Steven Stern wrote:
> David Cary Hart wrote:
> >
> > An alternative to MadWiFi is ndiswrapper which facilitates the use of
> > Windows drivers. Having used both on Atheros for some time, I get VASTLY
> > improved performance with ndiswrapper (YMMV). Ndiswrapper is available
> > from the Dag repo. The source and docs are here:
> > http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/
>
> Unfortunately, when I tried ndiswrapper with the D-Link card, I kept
> finding new and interesting ways to crash the kernel.
>
I use a vanilla kernel with 8k stacks for ndiswrappers. Then I added
netprofile=wireless to the grub command line for that kernel after
setting up the "wireless" profile.
YMMV but I have found that the performance is is astonishingly better
than I get with madwifi.
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