Anirban Biswas schrieb:
Hi all
Since I started this chain I should say I tried to Compile Ndiswrapper on my 64 bit Compaq Laptop but did not compiled said only work for 32 bit machine. So I think I am out of luck to use my WLAN card better to buy a LAN Cable. & thanks for the help guys.
Ndiswrapper does not work in 64-Bit OS. The main reason is that the Windowsdrivers are 32-Bit. It the latter is available, than the former could relativily easily be ported. That is at least what they say on their site. You could also install Linux as 32-Bit OS on your 64-Bit machine. Then it will work. But i assume you don´t want that.
Anirban
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 17:21:29 +0000, Sid Boyce
wrote: Philipp Thomas wrote:
* Curt Purdy (purdy@tecman.com) [20041129 19:34]:
I don't believe it will require a 64-bit Windoze driver.
Of cause it does! Ndiswrapper is simply a wrapper that translates NDIS API calls to Linux kernel calls. As you can't mix 32 and 64 bit code, the driver has to match the kernel, i.e. for a 64 bit kernel you'd need a 64 bit driver.
<soapbox> Once again it shows why binary-only drivers are bad and therefor why products needing them should be avoided if possible. </soapbox>
Philipp
64-bit certainly teaches you that lesson big time! Once there is a 32-bit binary module involved, you are out of luck, fact not soapbox. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer =====LINUX ONLY USED HERE=====
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