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Posted: Aug. 20 2008,14:32 QUOTE
Hello,

I just wanted to check weather anyone experienced installing a newer version of ndiswrapper, as the old one doesn't support my wifi card?
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Posted: Aug. 20 2008,15:28 QUOTE
I seem to remember that newer versions either need a 2.6.x kernel or a more recent version of glibc - you could look in the ndiswrapper readme file to check...
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Posted: Aug. 22 2008,13:15 QUOTE
The readme file sais that kernel 2.4.26 or higher...i think it is 2.4.31 in 4.4.4 ...
And i have no clue about glibc =]
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Posted: Aug. 22 2008,13:26 QUOTE
you're right - 4.x has a 2.4.31 kernel, so it might work...
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Posted: Aug. 22 2008,15:54 QUOTE
Nah...
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You need a recent kernel, at least 2.6.18 or 2.4.26, with kernel headers, and gcc-3.4 or newer.


it was quite close thou ^^
i guess there is hardly any possibility of installing gcc-3.4 on dsl is it?
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