[ale] MintWifi

[jknapka at kneuro.net (JK)]

Michael B. Trausch wrote:

> On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 14:05 -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> 
> 
>>On Wednesday 24 January 2007 13:42, Michael B. Trausch wrote:
>>
>>>I would try downloading the Windows driver for the card that you have
>>>and see if you can install it using the NDIS-Gtk front-end program,
>>>which you can find in "System?Administration?Windows Wireless Drivers"
>>
>>I saw that menu, but it didn't make sense to me..I did try to add one, but I 
>>didn't have the .INF file. I'll try to download that driver.. I probably have 
>>it on my XP partition...
> 
> 
> 
> Even if you don't, the INF file is distributed with the driver itself.
> As to why it's necessary, well... ask Microsoft, I guess.  :-)  I can't
> think of a reason that such a thing should be necessary, since the
> driver metadata should be available within the (theoretically signed)
> driver file itself.

IIRC NDIS is a generic driver; the .INF file tells the
NDIS driver how to talk to a particular card. That
is, there isn't a separate binary driver for each card;
there's a single binary driver, which reads .INF files
in order to understand the particulars of each card.

-- JK