Re: [Ndiswrapper-general] Supported driver for 3945ABG

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Actually, I do have the linux-headers package downloaded and installed. I  
have everything I need wrt the kernel installed.

Anyways, I will try the latest Windows XP driver I downloaded.


On Jan 7, 2009 11:42am, Pavel Roskin <pr...@gn...> wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 23:31 -0500, John Sasso wrote:
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> > For my question, normally I would go to:
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> > but I end up going to a blank page w/ URL:
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> > http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/joomla/
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> If you start with the ndiswrapper page
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> http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/ you can easily find the list
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http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=ndiswrapper-general
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> > Anyways, I have a Compaq nc8430 laptop w/ Intel Pro/Wireless 3945ABG
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> > which, according to the version info, correspond to ndiswrapper 1.52.
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> That's not enough information to fix the problem. I don't think it's a
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> regression in 1.53. Most likely, you don't have the kernel development
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> > QUESTION: I went to Intel's website to download the driver for the
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> > For my system specs above, is this supported by ndiswrapper 1.52?
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> > If not, which version of the drivers should I get?
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> I believe most drivers for Windows XP are supported. I think you can
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> Regards,
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> Pavel Roskin
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