Re: ndiswrapper for the best distro?
Doofus wrote:
> I intended to give this a try to see if I can get a Netgear WG511v2
> wireless LAN PC Card working.
>
> After downloading the small tar ball
> (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ndiswrapper) I noticed a top level
> "debian" directory. Highly promising you might think, but unless I'm
> missing something obvious (certainly a possibility) there's not one jot
> of information on the specifics of this directory or how to use it with
> (or in lieu of) the usual build instructions, either in the notes
> included with the tarball, or anywhere on the sourceforge site. Pretty
> poor really, I think.
>
The debian/ directory contains rules used for building a debian package.
Check out chapter 3 of the debian programmer's manual [0] for information
on how to use it.
You may also find chapter 6 of the apt howto to be helpful. [1]
> They also say they have a ready to go .deb, but the link returns a 404
> file not found. Pretty poor really, I think.
>
> I realise I have no right to expect superlative code from well meaning
> folks who do this development for the love of it, but as an advocate of
> "if a job's worth doing it's worth doing properly", I'm wondering if I
> shouldn't ditch the whole idea and buy a natively supported card. On the
> other hand, someone here whith more nous than me may understand what's
> what here and help me out?
Natively supported cards can be difficult to find due to vendors changing
chipsets without changing card versions.
Hope that helps,
Justin
[0]: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/programmer/ch-preparation.html
[1]: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-sourcehandling.en.html
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