kernel oops with iwconfig wlan0 [ ndiswrapper ]

[Quasar Jarosz]

Someone might have said this already, but i just thought i'd point out
that i've been using ndiswrapper with the broadcom driver on all the new
kernels with no problems. The nvidia driver, however, is in very sad shape
:) I even tried all the patch removals, and hand-editing, and although i
got the driver to load wtihout crashing, and X to start, if i started a
windowed opengl app, it ran very slowly, and if i started a fullscreen app
(ie, tuxracer, Quake3, ET, etc), the system immediatly froze.

-Quasar

On Wed, 12 May 2004, Satish Balay wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, 12 May 2004, Sarah Pearson wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> I just tried again (with latest FC2beta kernel & madwifi CVS). I can bring
> up ath0 - but it hangs after some data transfer. This is a mini-pci card.
> I havne't tried to eliminate any pcmcia conflict though..
>
> Satish
>
>
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