Adam Bower wrote:
On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 07:14:02PM +0100, Ian bell wrote:
Adam Bower wrote:
I'd really suggest not using ndiswrapper if you can at all help it,
Because??
Because it's a buggy hack to use drivers from another OS, i'd only want to use it as a real last resort (actually, I'd get rid of the buggy hardware and replace it with something that had proper support)
In fact, given the amount of time I've spent trying to get badly supported hardware working in the past I now just get something that is well supported in the first place or If I already have the hardware I get rid of it and replace it with something that works.
especially in this case as there is a native Linux driver available for the Belkin F5D7050 from http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
Except it is buggy. I have never yet got it to compile - well I did once but then it segfaulted when run. ndiswrapper does at least work.
Except ndiswrapper doesn't work for all people, I do hope you reported the bugs that you found in the rt2500 driver. The main reason I suggested the native driver was that I've heard of people having good success with it and problems with ndiswrapper.
So to summarise, ndiswrapper is buggy and doesn't work for some people and the rt2x00 driver is buggy and doesn't work for some people
Ian