On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 08:37:14AM -0700, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
On 08/30/2010 07:49 AM, John W. Linville wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 10:55:43AM -0700, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
>
>> I have a gateway M-6750 laptop which sports a
>> Marvell TopDog wifi chip. I have obtained the
>> latest drivers for this chip, and used ndiswrapper
>> to hook itself to the XP/Vista topdog driver, and
>> it at first appears to be working... although there
>> are crash data appearing in the log files but other
>> than that, it continues on working.
>>
> I'm sorry, but I can't offer you any support for ndiswrapper. Did you
> try the mwl8k driver?
>
> John
>
No I have not tried this driver... where can I get it?
It's part of the Fedora kernel. Also make sure the linux-firmware
package is installed.
While testing mwl8k, you will want to remove ndiswrapper so as to
avoid interference with the in-kernel driver.
John
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