ndiswrapper: wireless driver adapter
Couple weeks ago I setup a dual boot system on my 600m, with Fedora Core 4 and XP. I downloaded the disc images and made some bootable CDs with Nero.
All went well, Anaconda recognized the 10GB of unallocated hard drive
space I had set up previously and promptly installed to that.
Apparently, a default install of Windows will overwrite the Master Boot Record (MBR), creating quite a dilemma when attempting to boot the linux system again. As a result, it is generally recommended to have the XP installed and running first.
I'm using ndiswrapper, a wireless network card driver wrapper
that functions as an adapter for my Windows-native device driver. Its a
pretty sweet concept- since lots of vendors don't provide a Linux
driver for their hardware, the Sourceforge project invokes Windows
kernal API via Linux kernal Network Driver Interface Specification (NDIS) API. With a short series of commands I can have my wireless nic up and running at any Starbucks in town, provided that I can afford it.




