2009/4/5 Jerry Feldman gaf@blu.org: <snip>
Why "Restart ndiswrapper". Ndiswrapper is used for non-stanrdard NIC modules, such as broadcom, and not for Firefox. Are you talking about //"nspluginwrapper"? ///nspluginwrapper /is only use to wrap 32-bit plugins for 64-bit browsers. /
AFAIK, ndiswrapper also wraps 32 bit plugins for 32 bit browsers. In fact I think it wraps all plugins whether they need to be wrapped or not.
I know this because I own a (very definitely) 32bit eeePC 701, which was running ndiswrapper to run flash. It was using a heck of a lot of CPU time (precious on this machine!) to wrap that plugin, such that I couldn't watch youtube videos properly. Uninstalling ndiswrapper fixed that.
Not sure if ndiswrapper is default in a 32bit Fedora install though, mine was from a kickstart which might just have ndiswrapper in the %packages section.