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

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

fantastic! compiling latest 1.9-RC2 from source removed wireless
extensions for wired interface. NetworkManager treats it correctly. it
even named the interface correctly.

would you be interested in a documentation contribution of some
Ubuntu/Debian specific install instructions?

alan

On 6/25/06, Giridhar Pemmasani <gi...@lm...> wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Jun 2006 18:45:36 -0700, "Alan Gibson" <ala...@gm...> said:
>
>   Alan> is registering wireless extensions for wired interfaces
>   Alan> intentional behavior or just a side effect of ndiswrapper
>   Alan> being origionally designed for wifi?
>
> ndiswrapper doesn't register ethernet (or other non-wireless) devices
> as wireless for the past few releases. You have older version of
> ndiswrapper. Try latest release. You may also want to add if_name
> option to ndiswrapper module so you get eth0 instead of wlan0.
>
> --
> Giri
>