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

Dan grinnz at gmail.com
Fri May 19 19:11:11 UTC 2006


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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