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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

> > We were given a Linksys Wireless-B Notebook Adapter WPC11 ver 4, which
> > unlike earlier versions appears to be supported by Linksys only by way of
> > Windows drivers using 'ndiswrapper'.  Can this be done in BL, maybe with
> > 2.2.26 or 2.4.31 kernel?
>
> http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net
> They provide a link to the realtek site for the proper driver and say not
> to use the one from linksys (which I don't have anyway).

Realtek actually does provide linux driver source code for the 8180, but 
it is labelled RH73 and required kernel 2.4.18 and gcc 2.96 or later 
kernels and gccs (2.6 or 2.4.20 with 3.something gcc).  I tried to compile 
with gcc 2.95.3 and got nowhere (lots of warnings and exited with an 
error).  Would uclibc gcc do better here?

I also tried to compile ndiswrapper and it wanted 2.4.31 kernel source, 
since I am using 2.4.31 kernel.  I will try again with 2.2.16, but it is 
not said to work with 2.2.16 after it is compiled.

I downloaded the Win98 driver - don't know if ndiswrapper requires a 
specific version of the Windows driver.  The driver is only 102K, but 
there are also about 1MB of 'utilities'.  The ndiswrapper code has a 
/utils.

> Our card works with version 1.1 (March 2005) and kernel 2.4.29.
>
> 132K .tar.gz source code, which I will compile dynamically for 2.2.25 and
> then statically with uclibc if anyone wants it for BL3.

Sindi