FC4 And Dlink DWL-G630 WiFi card, A Complete NO-GO

[Tomas Larsson]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com 
> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Dan
> Sent: Friday, May 19, 2006 9:11 PM
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> Subject: Re: FC4 And Dlink DWL-G630 WiFi card, A Complete NO-GO
> 
> Tomas Larsson wrote:
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com 
> >> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Rick Stevens
> >> Sent: Friday, May 19, 2006 7:47 PM
> >> To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> >> Subject: RE: FC4 And Dlink DWL-G630 WiFi card, A Complete NO-GO
> >>
> >> On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 16:07 +0200, Tomas Larsson wrote:
> >>     
> >>> After struggling for one and a half day, it is a complete 
> no-go to 
> >>> install this in FC4.
> >>> The original drivers don't work, crashes the kernel with a
> >>>       
> >> reboot as result.
> >>     
> >>> Ndiswrapper will not install due to the stacksize, using the 
> >>> reccomended 16K kernel, and the result is invalid module-format.
> >>>       
> >> Uhm, did you rebuild the kernel for the large stacks?  Both the 
> >> module and the kernel must be built with large 
> stacks...you can't mix 
> >> them.
> >>
> >>     
> >
> > Yes, I did. I downloaded the new 16k kernel-devel and 
> rebuild the module(s).
> >
> >   
> Did you try the ndiswrapper RPM/kmod from livna?
> -Dan
> 
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Tried the stuff on ndiswrapper homepage plus the link to a patched kernel. 


With best regards

Tomas Larsson
Sweden

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