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Re: ndiswrapper and Scientific Linux 6
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Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]>
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Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 28 Jan 2011 07:21:58 -0600
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On 01/28/2011 02:43 AM, Kai Heide wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I saw in the #centos channel on freenode a discussion about
> ndiswrapper in centos 6. The discussion was that RHEL modified their
> kernel in that way, which doesn't can handle wificards via
> ndiswrapper. Does the Scientific Linux 6 Kernel can handle wificards
> via ndiswrapper. Does sl-contrib will provide a ndiswrapper package
> again? I'm running SL5.5 on my msi wind u100 with a 8187se wirficard.
>
>
> Afaik this network driver should be a part of the kernel since .29,
> and i tested it with a fedora livecd but the nm showed me an available
> wificard without networks.. I hate this wifi problematics, always!

The SL6 kernel is the same kernel as RedHat's.  We do not modify our 
kernel at all.

Have you tried SL6 beta on your netbook?  It's quite possible you won't 
even need ndiswrapper.

Troy
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