Re: ndiswrapper for the best distro?

[jlmb <jlmb@cableonda.net>]

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.
> 
> 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?
> 
> 
> 

So...you want to build ndiswrapper modules?
As easy as (be root or use sudo):
[ atrus ]$ sudo m-a auto-install ndiswrapper


jorge