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sequalit
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 Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 8:40 am Post subject: Wireless Config and Wine? |
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I cannot get my wireless card to configure under ndiswrapper worth crap. Mainly because I'm on a amd64 and there are no 64 bit drivers for my wireless card Netgear WG111v2 (0846:6a00). I've tried realtek drivers, no work.
Anyways, I say that to justify this question:
Can I install the windows drivers in wine/crossover and use that to connect to the internet wirelessly?
Is there a way to get linux to even see it... or bridge networking to it?
Right now i'm stuck with having to have my laptop sitting right here at my computer acting as a wireless interface for my desktop... which sucks.
Laptops were not ment to be thousand dollar wireless cards.... HAH. |
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sequalit
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| Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 4:53 am Post subject: |
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| why would i run a 32 bit kernel on a 64 bit system? |
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sequalit
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| Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 5:04 am Post subject: |
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yeah but i lose the whole reason for having a 64 bit processor...
is there a way I can run 32 bit emulation for ndiswrapper instead? |
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| sequalit wrote: | | yeah but i lose the whole reason for having a 64 bit processor... |
You have 4 or more GB of RAM? I'm jealous.
At any rate, I would advise getting a USB WiFi adapter until there is 64-bit support for your card. It's only a $20 investment.
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sequalit
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| Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 9:03 am Post subject: |
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| MostAwesomeDude wrote: |
You have 4 or more GB of RAM? I'm jealous.
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You mean you cant use 64 bit unless you have 4 GB ram...... riiiiight.
well... for some people that $20 is food for the whole week :p
Would a 32 bit chroot be worth it for this? |
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MostAwesomeDude
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| Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 7:05 pm Post subject: |
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| sequalit wrote: | | MostAwesomeDude wrote: |
You have 4 or more GB of RAM? I'm jealous.
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You mean you cant use 64 bit unless you have 4 GB ram...... riiiiight.
well... for some people that $20 is food for the whole week :p |
$25 is, indeed, my food budget for a week, not counting certain things like school-provided bagels. (Gotta love ramen!) At any rate, the only real advantages I can think of for running 64-bit are:
- Tiger hashing runs twice as fast, since it was designed for 64-bit processors
- 1/2/3GB per-process and 4/64GB per-system RAM limits removed
- No more PAE penalties for more than 4GB of RAM
But, in exchange, you run into issues with binary drivers and precompiled 32-bit applications. I am on a Core 2 Duo laptop, and I switched back from 64-bit due to a love of SNES (snes9x and zsnes don't work properly in 64-bit) and faulty drivers (at the time, ipw3945 didn't work well in 64-bit, has since been fixed with iwlwifi.) I only have 2GB of RAM, so it wasn't a big deal for me.
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sequalit
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| Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 3:51 am Post subject: |
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okay so now that you convinced me to do a 32 bit kernel...
is there any way I can tak emy current system and recompile it for 32 bit instead of having to reinstall???
or will i have to start over again from scratch?
I know you can go from 32 bit to 64 bit by just doing a recompile... |
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MostAwesomeDude
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In theory, you can go from 32-bit to 64-bit with a recompile, but it's much safer to copy everything you need to keep to another drive and then reinstall from a stage3.
When I did it, I saved /usr/local/music (my 40GB of music) and /home/simpson (my home folder) and deleted everything else, and then unzipped a new stage3 and portage snapshot over that, then reconfigured the system. YMMV.
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sequalit
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| Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 7:22 am Post subject: |
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aite, well I might redo my system with 32 bit then...
I'm trying the realtek 64bit drivers(since netgear wg111v2 has a realtek chipset haha) and ndiswrapper at the moment, recompiling kernel to disable SMP
Let you know how it goes...
Thanks for all the wisdom  |
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