Building Core 4 without 4K stacks?

[Brian Gaynor]

On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 11:28 -0400, Stephen Reppucci wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I'm new to the list, but searched the archives and couldn't find an 
> answer.
> 
> I've just upgraded to FC4 from FC3, where I had a nicely working wlan
> interface (LinkSys WPC54GS) via the ndiswrapper module loader.
> 
> After upgrading, I went to re-install ndiswrapper and discovered that
> it won't work with the FC4 kernels, as they're built with the
> CONFIG_4KSTACKS option. I installed the kernel source and went to
> rebuild, and found that Fedora has apparently removed the option from
> the configuration process to disable 4K stacks (grrr...)
> 
> Anyone have any hints on how I can get around this? I see #ifdef's in
> the source tree for '#ifdef CONFIG_4KSTACKS', but not sure if I can
> just define that someplace, and have the right things happen, or if
> the changes are more involved than that.
> 
> Any ideas? Thanks!

I get the 4K stack warning when I build ndiswrapper, but it installs and
runs my Broadcom chipset wireless CARD just fine on the stock Fedora
kernels. YMMV.

-- 
Brian Gaynor
www.pmccorp.com
FC4/Linux on DELL Inspiron 5160 3.0Ghz 
canis 11:05:13 up 2:36, 1 user, 
load average: 0.21, 0.20, 0.12