Linksys WPC54G notebook wireless card installation

[sakthi]

I have FC4 on my dell inspiron 1000 notebook. Kernel -- 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4

I installed ndiswrapper 1.8....it gave the following warning:

WARNING: This kernel seems to use 4K stack size option (CONFIG_4KSTACKS); ma ny Windows drivers will not work with this option enabled. Disable CONFIG_4KSTAC KS option, recompile and install kernel

But I just continued installing the wndows driver for it which is for win9X ( I could find drivers only for win9X and winNT in the CD which came with the card) with ndiswrapper -i command then when I listed by ndiswrapper said the driver installed and harware present. Then I did modprobe and ndiswrapper -m to create wlan0

Now when I try to activate my wlan0 it says "ndiswrapper device wlan0 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization."

Is the problem because of 4K stack? What should I do for that.....

Do I hve to install the winXP drivers only ?

Please help me

[sakthi]

Can anyone help me......

[sakthi]

I got it resolved!

[bigfootnmd]

Glad you solved your issue. However, could you post how you solved it so that if somebody in the future has a similar problem they too can see the light?

[sakthi]

Sorry. I actually thought of posting it. Anyway here it is,

I bought Linksys WRT54G broadband router and WPC54G notebook card. I have Dell Inspiron 1000 and FC4 with 2 kernels: 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 and 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4_cubbi8_swsusp2. I was mostly booting with swsusp kernel as it had hibernation working. But since I was missing header files I could not compile ndiswrapper with that kernel. But I had headers in the other kernel; Hence I compiled the ndiswrapper 1.8. it gave a warning that my kernel is 4k stack. but I just continued installing the driver. I got the driver (for win9x) for the card which came with the CD and the installed it using ndiswrapper. Then modprobed it and created a link for wlan0. But it did not work it can not even detect the card.

Then I removed ndiswrapper and isntalled it through yum. it installed the kernel 2.6.17-1.2142_FC4 also. But I could not boot into the that kernel at all since when it starts booting into the X-win it hangs I do not know why. So I again went with the kernel 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 and tried installing the driver for win9x for the card. It installed but when I modprobed it said objects missing. So now I again compiled the ndiswrapper then got the objects then modprobed and created the link wlan0. It started working.....Now I am wireless in Fedora....!!

This is just a description of what I did. If anyone need the full step-by-step approach of what I did I can give...