Re: [Ndiswrapper-general] trouble with Dell Inspiron 8500

[Stefan A. <sar...@we...>]

Thanks for the answer. It's working now. 
I did not uninstall everything from the previously installed Linuxant
commercial ndis driverloader software.

Regards,
Stefan

Am Die, den 09.12.2003 schrieb Giridhar Pemmasani um 23:35:
> ndiswrapper at the moment is very picky. If you have other network
> card on your machine, load the module for that first, which will be
> configured as eth0. Then load ndiswrapper, which will be configured as
> eth1. Then you should use eth1 as the wireless interface.
> 
> This order can't be changed (e.g., by removing the other network
> module and loading the ndiswrapper module) after configuring them once
> as eth1 etc.
> 
> Best bet is to load the modules, e.g., if you have Broadcom Gigabit
> ethernet, which uses tg3 module, then put
> 
> tg3
> ndiswrapper
> 
> in that order in /etc/modules. Then you are guaranteed to have gigabit
> card as eth0 and wireless card as eth1.
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