Re: Recommendations for wireless PCI card

One last question. One downside of using ndiswrapper is that we are
limited by whatever windows driver is there. In my case, along with
other annoyances, it meant that I was forced to keep using a 32bit
release instead of migrating to a 64-bit OS. Does a binary blob driver
also comes with that sort of limitations? I've heard that some drivers,
like the realtek one, do not support SMP. Are there other limitaitons?

Most times there's a sp####.exe to upgrade your driver. Inside is a 32
bit and 64 bit version of the drivers for my card which uses
ndiswrapper. You don't even have to run windows to extract them.

# catextract sp34152.exe

And it extracts them like a regular tarball or zip file. Or at least
that's how they come packaged from the manufacturer for my laptop. Yours
might be different to some degree.

I don't know much about SMP stuffs. Aside from regular XP being 32 bit
and NOT supporting SMP at all. Taking note of my dads new super computer
that runs about as fast as my old 800MHz duron laptop under XP. Even
though it has dual 64bit 3.4GHz processors. I don't have any dual
machines and most of my current processors are about 2GHz. All of which
run linux much faster than my dads new super computer on a mismatched
version of XP (that came with the computer). As I note that XP didn't
recognize his new wireless keyboard and mouse out of the box, but my
knoppix 5.0.1 CD did.

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