How to Install and Use ndiswrapper [Video]
May 23rd, 2008 by Elliot Isaacson in
Hardware manufacturers often don't release specifications of their products to the open source community, so programs like ndiswrapper become necessary. This video demonstrates how to use Windows wireless drivers in Linux using ndiswrapper.
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NDA and friends
On May 30th, 2008 Luis Coronado (not verified) says:
It must be clarified that most of the time the problems with wireless and other drivers not being written is the lack of proper documentation freely available without the need to sign NDA and other legal documents that only takes away the freedom to the community. OpenBSD devs for example knows that and still manage to write drivers for most of the wifi cards/chips out there. Using nndiswrapper is just another way to make gnu/linux worse. If we want source code freedom we need free documentation as well.
From source :-)
On May 23rd, 2008 Galactic-ac (not verified) says:
Thank you, thank you, for doing this from source. This is exactly the kind of advice needed out there for new Linux users. When the video started, I was fully expecting to start hearing about Ubuntu repositories, but you didn't make the false and irritating assumption that new users are using *buntu. Please Linux Journal, keep producing _generic_ advice!
Would like see a transcript
On May 23rd, 2008 oldcity (not verified) says:
Would like see a transcript of the
how to video of ndiswrapper. The video
is hard to follow for doing an install.
tia
oldcity
Would like see a transcript
On May 25th, 2008 Elliot_Isaacson (not verified) says:
Please see http://dark-code.bulix.org/9docul-66517
Hope it helps.