[ale] MintWifi

[Michael B. Trausch]

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.

    -- Mike

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