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Message-ID: <54293.166.70.238.44.1227685993.squirrel@webmail.wolfmountaingroup.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:53:13 -0700 (MST)
From: jmerkey@...fmountaingroup.com
To: "Justin P. Mattock" <justinmattock@...il.com>
Cc: jmerkey@...fmountaingroup.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ndiswrapper 1.54-2.6.27 released
> On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 23:02 -0700, jmerkey@...fmountaingroup.com wrote:
>>
>> ndiswrapper with the 2.6.27 breakage corrected. The current maintainers
>> have not put out a release for 2.6.27 or later kernels, so I went ahead
>> and fixed it for 2.6.27.
>>
>> ftp://ftp.wolfmountaingroup.org/pub/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper-1.54-2.6.27.7.tar.gz
>>
>> Linux wireless drivers still do not work on most of my laptops and USB
>> wireless devices due to lack of firmware drivers and other problems with
>> native Linux wireless. Anyone else with busted laptop wireless who need
>> ndiswrapper might as well be able to get it since the maintainers have
>> not
>> posted recent releases for recent kernels.
>>
>>
>> Jeff
>>
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>
> Cool; glad to see it working
> with the latest kernel.
> BTW who is the author
> of this patch?(this has baffled me for sometime);
> http://www.slackware.com/~alien/slackbuilds/ndiswrapper/build/ndiswrapper_kernel_2.6.27.patch
> (not to imped you in anyway);
>
> regards;
>
> --
> Justin P. Mattock <Justinmattock@...il.com>
>
>
I have no idea, but the patch you pointed me to is not conditionalized
with #if {kernel version >= 2.6.27} <insert info struct> #else <leave as
in 1.53> #end and will only work on 2.6.27.7. The version I posted is
backwards compatible with 2.6.27 backwards to earlier releases.
Jeff
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