OK, so what happened to ndiswrapper and the kernel modules?
I guess nobody sees this as a problem, that ndiswrapper was not part of this milestone!
I just looked on the DVD and they are there.
You can probably download them directly from the factory repo, or if you are really stuck I can email them to you I guess.
They’re quite small :).
growbag wrote:
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> I just looked on the DVD and they are there.
>
> You can probably download them directly from the factory repo, or if
> you are really stuck I can email them to you I guess.
>
Something odd going on here as they’re not on my DVD (32-bit) or add-on CD.
However, as you say, they are on the factory repo -
http://download.opensuse.org/factory/repo/oss/
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Not on my 32bit DVD either. And then there is the Catch 22 situation with them being on the repository; need them to get network access!
But I will download them and copy them over.
Thanks guys.
If your media indeed are missing packages, don’t use them anymore. Some corruption must exist, the chances are that you will meet more trouble like this. Download new images, check MD5, burn to disk, check MD5 of burnt disk.
Knurpht wrote:
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> If your media indeed are missing packages, don’t use them anymore. Some
> corruption must exist, the chances are that you will meet more trouble
> like this. Download new images, check MD5, burn to disk, check MD5 of
> burnt disk.
>
>
Gary, I checked my DVD before installation and have just re-checked it. It
is OK and does NOT have ndiswrapper on it. Knurpht offers good general
advice above but the problem here is with the original M6 distribution.
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Graham P Davis wrote:
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> Gary, I checked my DVD before installation and have just re-checked it. It
> is OK and does NOT have ndiswrapper on it. Knurpht offers good general
> advice above but the problem here is with the original M6 distribution.
No open-source software needs or uses ndiswrapper, which is likely why
it is not included.
It is currently not included for the simple reason of not building currently and older build not being compatible anymore.
Larry Finger wrote:
> Graham P Davis wrote:
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>> Gary, I checked my DVD before installation and have just re-checked it.
>> It is OK and does NOT have ndiswrapper on it. Knurpht offers good general
>> advice above but the problem here is with the original M6 distribution.
>
> No open-source software needs or uses ndiswrapper, which is likely why
> it is not included.
So all the Broadcom wireless devices now work with b43?
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“I wear the cheese. It does not wear me.”
No open-source software needs or uses ndiswrapper, which is likely why
it is not included.
hmm, that’s a very alarming, totalitarian point of view which I hope is purely personal and is not coming from Novell!
What will be next, there is no legal use for: DVD playing apps, DVD ripping apps, bittorrent clients, mp3 playing capabilities, no reason for allowing the use of closed source drivers?
Sounds VERY authoritatian to me!
“No open-source software needs or uses ndiswrapper” is probably quite correct, but people may need it, doesn’t that count?
Graham P Davis wrote:
> Larry Finger wrote:
>
>> Graham P Davis wrote:
>>> Gary, I checked my DVD before installation and have just re-checked it.
>>> It is OK and does NOT have ndiswrapper on it. Knurpht offers good general
>>> advice above but the problem here is with the original M6 distribution.
>> No open-source software needs or uses ndiswrapper, which is likely why
>> it is not included.
>
> So all the Broadcom wireless devices now work with b43?
Not yet, but the latest code in wireless-testing now supports the
BCM4312 802.11 b/g - the one with PCI ID 14e5:4315. The as yet
unsupported devices (N PHYs) are much better handled by Broadcom’s wl
driver than by ndiswrapper and a Windows driver.
growbag wrote:
>> No open-source software needs or uses ndiswrapper, which is likely why
>> it is not included.
>
> hmm, that’s a very alarming, totalitarian point of view which I hope is
> purely personal and is not coming from Novell!
>
> What will be next, there is no legal use for: DVD playing apps, DVD
> ripping apps, bittorrent clients, mp3 playing capabilities, no reason
> for allowing the use of closed source drivers?
>
> Sounds VERY authoritatian to me!
>
> “No open-source software needs or uses ndiswrapper” is probably quite
> correct, but people may need it, doesn’t that count?
That idea was personal. I have no connection with Novell.
Someone reported that ndiswrapper did not build when running a 2.6.31
kernel, that is not true.
Of course people may need it, and I expect it will be included by
release time, but it probably has low priority now. The proper course
is to file a bug report if you need it now.
Well, my wifi card doesn’t work with b43, that’s why I wanted to use ndiswrapper.
Anyhow, let’s see what the official release of 11.2 brings.
Well we already know that the version of ktorrent released with openSUSE is crippled!
Larry Finger wrote:
> Of course people may need it, and I expect it will be included by
> release time, but it probably has low priority now. The proper course
> is to file a bug report if you need it now.
Larry, as mentioned earlier in the thread, ndiswrapper is now in the factory
OSS repo so I guess it will also appear in the M7 DVD.
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gary curtin wrote:
> Well, my wifi card doesn’t work with b43, that’s why I wanted to use
> ndiswrapper.
What card do you have?
It is a Belkin G Plus Desktop pci card - F5D7001.
Under ndiswrapper it works fine using the bcmwl5 win driver
:shame:
Ah, now I have managed to get the card working using b43.
You see, you need internet access to run the install_bcm43xx_firmware script. So that was why that never worked. It was always just easy enough to install ndiswrapper as part of the install from the DVD, load the drivers off a CD from the manufacturer, and there you have it.
Anyway, with a working ndiswrapper connection on 11.1, I followed the HCL/Network Adapters (Wireless)/Broadcom BCM43xx - openSUSE page, and that worked fine. So then I deleted ndiswrapper and have a working connection on 11.1.
On 11.2, I could not get ndiswrapper to install. Eventually I ran a looooong cable from my router to the machine and got the bcm43xx firmware installed.
So now I have a working connection on 11.2 as well!
gary curtin wrote:
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> So now I have a working connection on 11.2 as well!
One thing to note. The firmware doesn’t change with the distro. When
you install 11.2, you can just copy the files in /lib/firmware/b43 on
11.1 into the same directory on 11.2 and it will work. I put those
files on a USB stick and always have them available.