In trouble with Wireless installation - Dlink DWL-G510

Mark Knecht markknecht at gmail.com
Fri Nov 19 01:32:06 UTC 2004


Just ran across this:

http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Distributions

RedHat/Fedora

    Recent 2.6 kernels have an option to enable/disable 4k stack size.
However, Fedora kernels disable this option altogether and use 4K
stack size, which is not enough for some windows drivers.
Consequently, if you use Fedora 2.6 kernel, ndiswrapper will most
likely crash. If you want to use Fedora kernel, get 16K stack kernel
or patch from Linuxant
http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/wlan/full/downloads-fc2-kernel-i686.php
for i686 or http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/wlan/full/downloads-fc2-kernel-i586.php
for i586. Alternately, you can compile a vanilla kernel (from
http://www.kernel.org) and disable 4K stack size (CONFIG_4KSTACKS).

Sometimes I get so tired.... ;-)

- Mark




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