Silly Q of the day

[gene heskett]

On Wednesday, August 17, 2011 07:57:48 PM Alan Dacey Sr. did opine:

> On Wednesday, August 17, 2011 5:52:02 PM gene heskett wrote:
> > Where can I find instructions on how to add the launchpad repo to my
> > 10.04 synaptic, it has ndiswrapper-1.56, where the 10.04 LTS offering
> > is 1.54 & way too old.
> > 
> > Thanks all.
> > 
> > Cheers, gene
> 
> Did you search here?:  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+ppas
> 
> Onestone has it for 10.04 but only version 1.54.  You can get the code
> for ver 1.56 from in there and see if it compiles.
> 
> You can also add the Meercat (10.11) repository from this ppa and see if
> it works.  I've done that with other packages and it went smooth.  I
> don't know if ndiswrapper will work though.  [
> https://launchpad.net/~onestone/+archive/ndiswrapper ]
> 
> This one has ver 1.56 for Karmic 
> https://launchpad.net/~brinley/+archive/ndiswrapper
> 
> Alan

Actually I downloaded the tarball & followed the INSTALL instructions, 
which it seems is mostly working now.  But 2 problems with the new 
ndiswrapper-1.56 on lucid. ndisgtk (why is it not in any menu?) now suffers 
from the 'apply' button being ghosted out.  And similarly, iwconfig seems 
incapable of assigning an SSID to wlan1.  I assume something in the 
ndiswrapper AP has changed.

an iwlist scan returns a list of 10 or 11 other local radios, including the 
router 4 feet away at -19 dbm.  Some are as weak at -86 dbm, and it even 
sees the router here in the house (alu siding) at -71 dbm, so this dongle 
would appear to have some very sensitive ears.  Time to go play with the 
router I want to use as an AP I guess.  If I get anywhere, I'll post.


Are these clues enough similar that anyone recognizes them?
Cheers, gene
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