ndiswrapper killing me

[Jeff Vian]

On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 09:32 -0500, Jan Morales wrote:
> Richard S. Crawford wrote:
> > I'm running Fedora Core 3 on an HP zd8000. So far, so good. Except today I 
> > attempted to get my wireless card working, and I'm having some problems.
> > ndiswrapper device wlan0 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization.
> > 
> > What could the problem be, and how can I fix it?
> 
> I got a Linksys WPC54G card working with ndiswrapper, and I can tell you 
> that you will need to recompile the kernel with CONFIG_4KSTACKS=n 
> (default is y). It didn't work without this step. It's a bit of a job 
> getting the source and compiling it, but other than that, I was able to 
> get it working following the instructions.
> 
> Jan

I don't think his problem at present is related to the 4K stack. The
wlan0 device is not being created.
I had a similar problem and I had to add the following to modprobe.conf
to get it to create the device automatically. 

    alias wlan0 ndiswrapper
    options ndiswrapper if_name=wlan0

I think I found those instructions somewhere in the ndiswrapper
documentation, but I don't have that on the top of my head.

Note that I have an AirLink card with the broadcom chipset, and on my
laptop I did have to use the 16K stack kernel from 
http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/wlan/full/downloads-fc3-i686.php
then compile ndiswrapper against that kernel (to fix the lock-up problem
I had with the 4K stack kernel that comes with Fedora.)