Alan,

On Tue, 27 Jun 2006, Alan J. Flavell wrote:

> On Tue, 27 Jun 2006, Alan J. Flavell wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 27 Jun 2006, Axel Thimm wrote:
> > 
> > > Latest ndiswrapper doesn't build anymore on SL3.
> > 
> > I see now that they had a whole string of releases after 1.9, so 
> > maybe I should try afresh and report any successes (or failures...).
> 
> As I was just re-creating SL3.0.5 on the replacement HD of a laptop 
> whose old disk had died, I've been able to look at the later releases
> since sending that earlier mail.
> 
> It seems to me that ndiswrapper 1.14 is the last version which builds 
> without trouble with SL3.0.5.  I've installed it and it appears to be
> working.
> 
> version 1.15 throws an error during the build.
> 
> All later stable versions, also the current 1.19rc2, throw rather more
> errors during the build.  
> 
> I haven't investigated the errors at all.
> 
> The INSTALL file has been saying, even since version 1.9 (I haven't 
> checked earlier) that a kernel version of at least 2.4.26 is required.
> However, as I say, up to and including version 1.14 it seems to work
> well with the SL3.0.5 kernel (I was using 2.4.21-40.EL).

Can you provide the ndiswrapper 1.14 rpm and srpm.  We will put them in 
contrib.  We have already put ndiswrapper into the SL4.3 release.

-Connie Sieh  
> 
> I cannot speak personally for SMP configurations.
> 
> > At any rate, it's an available option, and anyone who can't find 
> > working native support for their wireless could find it useful.
> 
> But only really for SL3.* (2.4.* kernels), as we previously discussed.
> 
> all the best
>