On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 01:34:19PM -0500, Connie Sieh wrote:
> Alan,
> 
> On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Alan J. Flavell wrote:
> 
> > This is just a comment.  I'm not saying anything is necessarily wrong.
> > 
> > When I attempt to build ndiswrapper (e.g versions 1.1 or 1.4, it 
> > doesn't matter which) for SL4, the following warning is emitted:
> > 
> >  *** WARNING:  Kernel is compiled with 4K stack size option 
> >  (CONFIG_4KSTACKS); many Windows drivers will not work with this 
> >  option enabled. Disable CONFIG_4KSTACKS option, recompile and 
> >  install kernel
> > 
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> 
> So based on that the ndiswrapper people should fix their code.  Now it may 
> not be possible to do that because ndiswrapper is wrapping a binary driver 
> which ndiswrapper has no control over.
> 
> If others find a combination of ndiswrapper that works please let us know 
> so that we can include it.
> 

  I was using ndiswrapper-1.2.1 until now, in a SL 4.1 install, and it was
working fine to load the windows drivers for a (from lspci) "Broadcom
Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller".   I saw that
message about 4KiB stacks during the package compilation (just used the
specfile inside the downloaded archive) and treated it as a warning and
went on and just installed and configured the damn stuff.

  Of course, the warning still holds and although I was able to load and
execute the drivers for the BCM4306, perhaps someone can fail for some
other driver.

  During the execution of some commands for the wireless  interface there
is another message :

# iwlist wlan0 scan
Warning: Driver for device wlan0 recommend version 18 of Wireless Extension,
but has been compiled with version 16, therefore some driver features
may not be available...

  It seems to be related to some kernel patch for Wireless Extension that
is not the bleading edge version.   Even so, as far as I was able to test,
it was working correctly.

  I've just updated the ndiswapper to version 1.5.   All those warnings
are still present and I wasn't able to test this new version yeat.



  Roxo

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