On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 11:02:42AM +0100, Alan J. Flavell wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Jun 2006, Axel Thimm wrote:
> 
> > Currently ipw3945 requires a kernel >= 2.6.10, so it will work on
> > neither SL3, nor even SL4. :(
> > 
> > I believe that if enough people show interest 2.6.9 (and thus SL4) may
> > be picked up, but it looks rather hopeless for 2.4 kernels.
> 
> For SL3.* (kernels 2.4.*) it might be worth trying ndiswrapper.  
> There are fairly positive comments in their supported list at 
> http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/List
> 
> As far as I know, there has been no resolution of the issues with 
> ndiswrapper when used with 2.6.* kernels built with the default 4k 
> stacks (possibly there *can be no resolution*?).

Yes, because the stack eating parts are closed source.

> But at least as a temporary solution for SL3.* it may be worth
> trying; and, once installed, it can support quite a number of
> different hardware types, which may be handy for some users.

Latest ndiswrapper doesn't build anymore on SL3. But for SL4 you can
use http://atrpms.net/dist/el4/ndiswrapper/

Still it's better to avoid ndiswrapper for several reasons, one of
them being that it can kill your stack. You're rather safe on x86_64
though due to the different default stack size there (8K).

> At any rate I've been using ndiswrapper successfully with SL303 and 
> 305 and a couple of different chipsets (rt2500[1] and ti1130).  I 
> can't speak specifically for the intel 3945, but if I had it, I sure 
> would give it a try for SL3.
> 
> hope that helps a bit.  ndiswrapper source includes recipes to build 
> an RPM.
> 
> [1]For the rt2500 chipset there's also native software, available from 
> the rt2x00 project (their rt2500-1.1.0-b4.tar.gz works for me); but 
> you weren't asking about rt2500.
> 
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