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Old 05-24-2006, 07:19 AM   #1
1kyle
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Can't run Parallels or Wireless Network on 10.1


Here's another one passing on 10.1 for a while.
I use Parallels do boot up Windows XP virtual machines -- far less hassle than dual booting.

However the software that allows me to create and boot virtual machines (Parallels - rather like VMWARE but cheaper) doesn't work.

Also my Wireless card which worked perfectly on 10.0 doesn't work on 10.1 even with ndiswrapper.

So back to 10.0

I've used SUSE from 9.x and mostly things worked reasonably well. 10.1 however seems to be a hideous dog.

The 2 pieces of software I MUST have are Wireless networking and the ability to load up Windows Virtual machines.

Both these critical apps don't work in 10.1 -- a real showstopper in my case.

Think I'll wait for 10.2 or even 11.0

I've NO issues at all with 10.0 - everything I need works flawlessly.

Cheers

-K
 
Old 05-24-2006, 07:35 AM   #2
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I had a problem with the SuSE 10.1 ndiswrapper package. The module wouldn't load. So I uninstalled the current version and retrieved the source for an older version from backup (version 1.8). The source tarball contains an ndiswrapper.spec file, so I used rpmbuild to build it.
First I installed the kernel-source and kernel-syms packages.

sudo cp ndiswrapper-<version>.tar.gz /usr/src/packages/SOURCES/
cd /usr/src/packages/SOURCES/
sudo tar xvzf ndiswrapper-<version>.tar.gz ndiswrapper.spec
mv ndiswrapper.spec ../SPECS
cd ../SPECS
sudo rpmbuild -bi ndiswrapper.spec

This will install both the ndiswrapper program and the ndiswrapper.ko kernel module.

You could also use "sudo rpmbuild -bb ndiswrapper.spec.
This will produce two RPM files in ../RPMS/<arch>/

You need to rebuild the ndiswrapper kernel module rpm when you upgrade the kernel, such as during a security update. So the rpmbuild -bb option works best for that, since you don't need to reinstall the program itself.

It might have worked to download the ndiswrapper source package, but I needed to use version 1.8 before I could download anything. And since it is working now, I didn't bother.
 
Old 05-24-2006, 09:01 AM   #3
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For wireless I'd say go with http://madwifi.org, follow all the instructions on the "Newbies guide" and you will have it up and running in about 10 minutes.
 
  


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