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. > > -- -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net