[ltp] T41 and ndiswrapper: can get IP but no ping

Svein Larsen linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Mon, 23 Aug 2004 08:43:22 +0200


Hi, i'm using ipw2100 - but i never got it working with the
out-of-the-box kernel. I always have to download kernel source and
compile my own kernel. Then it works like a dream.

- Svein

On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 06:28, Spiros Psarris wrote:
> Eben King wrote:
> 
> > Have you considered http://ipw2100.sourceforge.net/ ?  Works for me
> 
> Did you have to recompile the kernel? I tried ipw2100 through Yast 
> (which installs version 4.something), but that acts the same way (router 
> sees the latop, I get an IP, but can't ping). I tried the latest version 
> of ipw2100, but the module won't load (pci_dma_sync_single is missing 
> from the kernel, and I had thought I could get this working without 
> recompiling the kernel).
> 
> Thanks,
> Spiros Psarris