Building Core 4 without 4K stacks?

[Edward Dekkers]

Brian Gaynor wrote:
> 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.
> 


No problem with D-Link DWL-G122 (Rev A) Prism based either.

You really need to try it before giving up. You may find it is OK.

Regards,
Ed.
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