Re: aklug Digest V3 #182

Dan,

Firday Night Linux would love to have it! I am in eagle river, and will be
happy to pick it up

Jim
> aklug Digest Thu, 26 Aug 2004 Volume: 03 Issue: 182
>
> In This Issue:
> OT: cleaning out
> Software Freedom Day - Interesting
> Windows drivers
> Windows driver
> Friday Night Meeting
> Re: Windows drivers
> Windows drivers - NEVER MIND
> Re: Windows drivers
> Ndiswrapper project
> Re: Ndiswrapper project
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 06:25:34 -0800
> From: Dan Wolf <dan-wolf@gci.net>
> Subject: OT: cleaning out
>
> Hello all,
> After many years of being in the computer repair business/hobby it's
> time to clean out (reads....wife and children want more
> room...<grin>). So heres the deal I have a bunch of cases (8),
> motherboards, memory, some hard drives, floppies, couple of monitors,
> printers, scanners, A/B boxes, nics, modems, sound cards, video, i/o
> cards, keyboards, cables, and whatnot. If someone is willing to come
> and get it (Peters creek) then its theirs. Preferably someone who
> would take it somewhere and let the rest of the lug members root
> through it. While there is nothing cutting edge there is a
> substantial amount of very usable stuff/parts for project making.
> I will have most of it piled up by this evening. It all has to be gone by
> noon saturday. So if anyone is interested please contact me off list.
> Thank you
> Dan
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> From: Tofu45 <rpelz34@acsalaska.net>
> Subject: Software Freedom Day - Interesting
> Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 14:35:32 -0800
>
> Software Freedom Day
>
> http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/08/25/HNunorganizes_1.html
>
> http://allafrica.com/stories/200408260234.html
>
>
>
> Looks interesting
>
> Bob Pelz
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 19:00:01 -0800
> From: Barsalou <barjunk@attglobal.net>
> Subject: Windows drivers
>
> I am trying to use some windows drivers with the ndiswrapper program
> written for Linux. However, the driver set is an exe file and I do not
> have a Windows XP machine. Anyone have suggestions on how I could
> extract the files from it?
>
> Mike B.
> --
> Barsalou <barjunk@attglobal.net>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 19:16:31 -0800
> From: Barsalou <barjunk@attglobal.net>
> Subject: Windows driver
>
> In addition, I am concerned that even if I can extract the files from
> the .exe file, that there will be a setup program that needs to be run.
> All I believe I need is the files like .inf, etc.
>
> Mike B.
> --
> Barsalou <barjunk@attglobal.net>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Subject: Friday Night Meeting
> From: Damien Hull <dhull@digitaloverload.net>
> Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 19:15:48 -0800
>
> I'm bringing the CD duplicating machine. I played around with a while
> back and found that one of the drives is not work. Other then that it
> works.
>
> There are six drives in this thing. If you tell it to burn 6 CDs it will
> load all the drives and start the burn process. It takes 9 minutes to
> burn. At the end it displays an error message and stacks the cd in the
> bad drive in the error stack. The rest go in the good pile.
>
> I don't think the bad drive does anything to the CD. I'm not sure but I
> think the drive can't see the media. Should be able to use the discarded
> CD.
>
> Basically what this means is that the machine will burn 5 CDs in 9
> minutes. Very Nice! If we can fix it we will be able to hit the go
> button and have it go through a stack of CDs all on its own.
>
> I'm hoping we can get this fixed before the IT Expo.
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 19:16:24 +0000
> From: Justin Dieters <enderak@gci.net>
> Subject: Re: Windows drivers
>
> I've had some success with wine doing similar things to what you
> describe. But then I've also had spectacular failures, so ymmv, but
> it's worth a try if you have wine. :)
>
> Justin
>
>
> Barsalou wrote:
>> I am trying to use some windows drivers with the ndiswrapper program
>> written for Linux. However, the driver set is an exe file and I do not
>> have a Windows XP machine. Anyone have suggestions on how I could
>> extract the files from it?
>>
>> Mike B.
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 19:33:25 -0800
> From: Barsalou <barjunk@attglobal.net>
> Subject: Windows drivers - NEVER MIND
>
> Sorry to trouble you folks at all...I spent about 2 seconds on the web
> and found that I could just use the unzip command.
>
> unzip mydriver.exe
>
> it then unzipped the files and the needed .inf was available.
>
> Mike B.
> --
> Barsalou <barjunk@attglobal.net>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 19:28:38 -0800
> From: bryan@ak.net
> Subject: Re: Windows drivers
>
> On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 07:00:01PM -0800, Barsalou <barjunk@attglobal.net>
> wrote:
>> I am trying to use some windows drivers with the ndiswrapper program
>> written for Linux. However, the driver set is an exe file and I do not
>> have a Windows XP machine. Anyone have suggestions on how I could
>> extract the files from it?
>
> If the .exe is a self-extracting zip file, you can use unzip to
> open it up.
>
> --
> Bryan Medsker
> bryan@ak.net
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 19:36:55 -0800
> From: Barsalou <barjunk@attglobal.net>
> Subject: Ndiswrapper project
>
> I have been asking these questions because I was trying to get a
> Broadcom Wireless BCM4306 working. There were no Linux drivers, but
> there is the ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net project.
>
> This worked FLAWLESSLY. I followed the directions after untarring the
> latest release and ZOOM....off it went.
>
> I did have to compile the ndiswrapper program, but I used a stock
> version of FC2 test 3 to do it.
>
> There are RPMS for earlier versions of the kernel.
>
> Now I am using windows drivers to run my broadcom wireless device in my
> Linux box. I just LOVE the irony.
>
> Mike B.
>
> --
> Barsalou <barjunk@attglobal.net>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> From: Joshua Kugler <jk@as.uaf.edu>
> Subject: Re: Ndiswrapper project
> Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 09:20:41 -0800
>
> I'll add my experiences. At the beginning of summer, I acquired a Linksys
> WPC11
> <http://www.linksys.com/products/product.asp?grid=33&scid=36&prid=542>
> It uses a RealTek RTL8180, which currently does not have (production)
> Linux
> drivers. used ndiswrapper on it, and it works great. Of course I don't
> get
> the fun features like scanning for WAPs, and all that, but I get a
> connection, and that's what matters.
>
> j----- k-----
>
> On Thursday 26 August 2004 07:36 pm, Barsalou wrote:
>> I have been asking these questions because I was trying to get a
>> Broadcom Wireless BCM4306 working. There were no Linux drivers, but
>> there is the ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net project.
>>
>> This worked FLAWLESSLY. I followed the directions after untarring the
>> latest release and ZOOM....off it went.
>>
>> I did have to compile the ndiswrapper program, but I used a stock
>> version of FC2 test 3 to do it.
>>
>> There are RPMS for earlier versions of the kernel.
>>
>> Now I am using windows drivers to run my broadcom wireless device in my
>> Linux box. I just LOVE the irony.
>>
>> Mike B.
>
> --
> Joshua Kugler
> Assistant Systems Administrator
> UAF Department of Mathematical Sciences
>
> ------------------------------
>
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