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So I worked some more on the laptop and I think I can now give a pretty comprehensive overview of everything.
To recap from my first post, this is for a Lenovo 3000 V100 C5U. The stuff that works out of the box on Mandriva Linux 2007 (any version, don’t need commercial stuff) with no fiddling:
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So, today’s update on the laptop:
I solved wireless. It seems with ndiswrapper 1.21 the trick is that you have to ‘install’ the Windows driver _on every boot_. This was clearly far too much effort, so I just built and installed ndiswrapper 1.28 instead. It seems to be fine, though it does take about a minute […]