Hi, good Gentoo ebuilders. There's a new ndiswrapper on the loose, and it's purported to have preliminary USB device support (a personal favorite, for those two poor Prism GT 802.11g USB 2.0 devices I have) and SMP support, among other nifty things. Note that the announcement below states that previous ndiswrapper users will need to re-install their Windows drivers. Here's the full text of the announcement: --- From: Giridhar Pemmasani <giri@lm...> 0.10 is released 2004-08-20 10:56 Ndiswrapper 0.10 is now available from sourceforge. If you are using an earlier release, you are urged to upgrade to this release. If you are using a version earlier than 0.10rc1, you should not only reinstall the driver, but utils as well. Moreover, after installing the utils, you should reinstall all Windows drivers. This is due to changes in file kernel/userspace interface changes since 0.9 release. If you fail to do this, kernel module will fail to load. Brief changelog since 0.9 release: * Preliminary support for USB devices (only a few Prism54 based devices have been tested under 2.6 kernels). * Kernel crash/keyboard lock issues have been fixed. * All known issues with Centrino 2200 have been fixed. * SMP/HT should work again. In case you didn"t notice, there is now Wiki at http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/wiki . You can find more upto-date documentation there than at other places. Please also update Wiki with any information that you think may be useful to others (e.g., if your card is not listed in List, update it with relevant information). In this release there is a new tool ndiswrapper-buginfo that collects useful information about setup of ndiswrapper and store it in /tmp/ndiswrapper-buginfo.gz. In case you have problems, please attach that file to your problem description and mail it to the mailing list. We would like to thank all the people that have donated to this project. Your support helps us buy more devices to improve ndiswrapper. -- Giri --- Thanks in advnace!
Created attachment 37858 [details] ndiswrapper .10 Version bump
The first new ebuild for 0.10 is based off an older, incorrect version, and should not be used. Additionally, it does not handle a few new files, and expects a few old ones to exist when they no longer do. I'll attach one shortly.
Created attachment 37912 [details] replacement ndiswrapper-0.10 EBuild file This ebuild superceeds the other attachment. Aside from the version bump, this ebuild removes the wlan_radio_averatec_5110hx program (no longer maintained in this package), and adds the ndiswrapper-buginfo utility program. There's also a short informational message about the ndiswrapper WIKI at the end.
One more thing... We probably should remove the ebuilds for ndiswrapper 0.[345], and possibly 0.6 (and -r1) as well.
Any chance this will get pushed to ~x86 (unstable) soon? Thanks!
Good job on the new ebuild Jesse. Should be appearing to a local ~x86 near you shortly. Sorry for the wait, been internet-less for the past couple of days.
