Is ndiswrapper Dead?
For a long time, ndiswrapper, which uses Windows wireless drivers to make wireless cards work on Linux, was a vitally important component of many Ubuntu systems. In many cases, it was the only way for users to access wireless Internet. Unfortunately, the ndiswrapper project’s pulse has seemed to go from faint to non-existent over the last several months.
In September, some important parts of its website went down–including the immensely valuable database of user-supplied testimonies on the performance of various wireless cards under ndiswrapper (for a mirror of this database, check here)–and have yet to be resurrected. Moreover, the project, which used to push out version upgrades with great regularity, hasn’t had a stable release in over half a year, and its subversion code doesn’t seem to have been touched in a couple of months. The current release doesn’t even compile on the 2.6.27 kernel, used by Ubuntu 8.10, without the application of a third-party patch.
Given all this, I think it’s fair to conclude that ndiswrapper is about to follow Gentoo down the blue tunnel into the Afterlife.
Fortunately, most users don’t have to care.
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