Re: [Ndiswrapper-general] Solution: wired Realtek 8139

[Alan G. <ala...@gm...>]

oops, i sent this email directly to Giridhar instead of the list, so
here goes again:

i almost forgot that ther is one last step to getting everything
working. you need to make sure the 8139 drivers do not load:

sudo find / -name 8139too.ko -exec mv '{}' '{}.bak' \;
sudo find / -name 8139cp.ko -exec mv '{}' '{}.bak' \;

if you are using NetworkManager to manage your wireless connections,
it will no longer handle this interface correctly. you will need to
add the following lines to /etc/network/interfaces if you previously
removed them (assuming your 8139 interface is eht0):

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

just reboot and it should work like a charm.

as for the version of ndiswrapper im running, `ndiswrapper -v` returns
 utils version: 1.7
 driver version: 1.8

there is one other minor issue that ive discovered. since ndiswrapper
registers wireless extensions even for wired connections, wireless
network managers try to treat the interface as wifi and have various
problems with it. for instance, Gnome's NetworkManager can no longer
manage the wired connection and does not automatically switch to it
when plugged in.

is registering wireless extensions for wired interfaces intentional
behavior or just a side effect of ndiswrapper being origionally
designed for wifi?

alan


On 6/24/06, Giridhar Pemmasani <pg...@ya...> wrote:
> --- Alan Gibson <ala...@gm...> wrote:
>
> > An initial try at installing this indicated that the
> > Toshiba driver
> > created too many inf files in
> > /etc/ndiswrapper/netopoem, so I hacked
> > out most of the entries in NetopOEM.inf file that
> > explicitly related
> > to other hardware vendors.
>
> ndiswrapper script needs some work - it should
> probably install .conf files for available (or
> requested) devices only. Probably a gui frontend would
> help in this regard.
>
> Thanks for letting others know.
>
> > ndiswrapper rocks!
>
> Nice to hear that!
>
> Giri
>
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