kernel oops with iwconfig wlan0 [ ndiswrapper ]

[Sarah Pearson]

On Wed, 2004-05-12 at 19:09, Satish Balay wrote:

> I believe ndiswrapper/linuxant stuff doesn't work on FC2beta kernels
> due to the 4G/4G stuff in the kenel (along with nvidia binary drivers)
> There should be more info regarding this in the archives..
> 
> I don't know if the same issue affects madwifi. I would certainly like
> to know if anyone is able to use madwifi on FC2T3+ kernel successfully.

I have done some more experimenting and think I have found the solution
to my problem at least.

There seems to be some sort of conflict perhaps between the order it
initialises ath0 and loads pcmcia.  If I dont load pcmcia at boot, then
the wireless card comes straight up without oopsing.

Stop pcmcia-cs from starting on boot (system-config-services) and put
the following into /etc/rc.modules

#!/bin/bash
/sbin/modprobe yenta_socket
/sbin/modprobe ds

chmod +x /etc/rc.modules

I have a ifcfg.ath0 file in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ which brings
up my wireless network on boot.

-- 
Sarah Pearson
sarah at zippysoft.com