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

[Dan]

Tomas Larsson wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com 
>> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Dan
>> Sent: Friday, May 19, 2006 9:11 PM
>> To: For users of Fedora Core releases
>> Subject: Re: FC4 And Dlink DWL-G630 WiFi card, A Complete NO-GO
>>
>> 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:
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>>>>         
>>>>> 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.
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>>>>         
>>>>> 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 
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>> rebuild the module(s).
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>>>   
>>>       
>> Did you try the ndiswrapper RPM/kmod from livna?
>> -Dan
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>
> Tried the stuff on ndiswrapper homepage plus the link to a patched kernel. 
>
>
> With best regards
>
> Tomas Larsson
> Sweden
>
> Verus Amicus Est Tamquam Alter Idem
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>   
Er...that's not what I asked.
http://rpm.livna.org
They have RPMs for ndiswrapper and kmod-ndiswrapper, which will easily 
install through yum for a mainstream FC kernel.
-Dan