Ndiswrapper crash DWL-G510 Rev B., Fedora 8

[Contradude]

I have gone through and installed ndiswrapper from livna's repositories and I have loaded the driver and configured it correctly. i'm using the driver I used when it was over on windows. I have a DLink DWL-G510 Rev. B and everytime I tried to modprobe it would lockup my system. I then manually added the alias to ndiswrapper in /etc/modprobe.conf but whenever I try to add it using gnome network manager, it crashes after recognizing ndiswrapper as a piece of hardware. I have run yum update and my machine is up to date. does anyone have any idea what could be causing this?

Edit: okay, from what I can understand from the ndiswrapper help pages that means my kernel crashed. does anyone know if the stack size in fedora 8 is still limited to 4kb?

[Dies]

Edit: okay, from what I can understand from the ndiswrapper help pages that means my kernel crashed. does anyone know if the stack size in fedora 8 is still limited to 4kb?

Yes it is, unfortunately. You just need to recompile the kernel, and de-select that in the kernel hacking section.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/CustomKernel

BTW it's actually very easy to recompile the kernel, just follow the guide carefully.
Also you'll probably want to use the latest NDISwrapper which is 1.51 at this point.

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thank you for your time! I would love to be able to recompile the kernel on this machine but it's only got a 8.5 gig HD... guess that's out for now. madwifi refuses to play nice with me, so i'm feeling a bit out of luck. it doesn't help that F8 has rudimentary support for atheros chipsets, so it taunts me by showing it under gnome network panel but refuses to connect to anything.

[Dies]

thank you for your time! I would love to be able to recompile the kernel on this machine but it's only got a 8.5 gig HD... guess that's out for now. madwifi refuses to play nice with me, so i'm feeling a bit out of luck. it doesn't help that F8 has rudimentary support for atheros chipsets, so it taunts me by showing it under gnome network panel but refuses to connect to anything.

If it helps, I'll post an rpm with only the 4stack thing removed.

Let me know.

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that would be totally awesome. do you mean the latest kernel as a custom rpm? if so, please!

I'm on the i686 version!

[Dies]

that would be totally awesome. do you mean the latest kernel as a custom rpm? if so, please!

I'm on the i686 version!

Yup, no problem. I'll post it in a little while, I'm running an update right now.

[Dies]

Alright, here you go, you can grab it from this link

http://www.sendspace.com/file/y88mki

Only difference is the 4STACK setting, everything else is the same.

I haven't tried it but I don't think the kmods will work, not sure.
But my advice is to just remove the ndiswrapper kmod along with any drivers you've installed and grab the latest from here

http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...group_id=93482

su -
make uninstall
make
make install

pretty easy, from there it's just the normal install driver, modprobe, etc.

BTW if ath5k is being loaded you'll need to blacklist it.

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Edit - I didn't change the name, so if you're feeling brave you can try kmods.

Also if you already have this kernel installed you will need to use

rpm -ivh --replacepkgs --replacefiles kernel*

Good Luck.

[christianvl]

Did anyone had luck with that? Sorry if this sounds dumb... but if i need to compile a knew kernel with the 4k disabled, how should a I do it? Will I have to install all my drivers again? How long can it take to recompile a kernel? Considering that i have a AMD x2 1.9, 2 gb ram and 30gb to spare in fedora's partition?

[Dies]

Should take you about 10 minutes give or take.

Not sure about your drivers since I'm not using any kmods.

But you can always give it a try and see what happens.

If you want to take the easy way out you should look at http://atrpms.net/

! - Just be warned that repo has caused problems for some in the past.

[christianvl]

Should take you about 10 minutes give or take.

Not sure about your drivers since I'm not using any kmods.

But you can always give it a try and see what happens.

If you want to take the easy way out you should look at http://atrpms.net/

! - Just be warned that repo has caused problems for some in the past.

I have the livna repos... I don't think it's a good idea to install another one (even more considering your warning).

So ok, i'll try to recompile the kernel... the only thing i didn't understand is how to do it... easy or hard way... Thanks!

[Dies]

I have the livna repos... I don't think it's a good idea to install another one (even more considering your warning).

So ok, i'll try to recompile the kernel... the only thing i didn't understand is how to do it... easy or hard way... Thanks!

Then just grab the kernel from the link I provided in post #7.

[christianvl]

Dies, thank you very much for the help.

I've downloaded the file and installed the kernel. However, now I can't use my nvidia driver (from livna). Everytime i try to use it I can't load the x sever and I'm forced to use the vesa driver (800x600) - ok, ok, you've told me so .

Is there any other way to install the nvidia driver? I'd like to get my display working properly before installing the wifi drivers... it won't do me no good anyway if i'll need to return to use fedora's 8 "regular" kernel and the 4k stack limit...

[Dies]

Dies, thank you very much for the help.

I've downloaded the file and installed the kernel. However, now I can't use my nvidia driver (from livna). Everytime i try to use it I can't load the x sever and I'm forced to use the vesa driver (800x600) - ok, ok, you've told me so .

Is there any other way to install the nvidia driver? I'd like to get my display working properly before installing the wifi drivers... it won't do me no good anyway if i'll need to return to use fedora's 8 "regular" kernel and the 4k stack limit...

Yup, you can either rebuild the rpms, which looks and sounds a lot harder than it actually is,

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=126183

or you can take the easy way out and just grab the driver right from the Nvidia site.

The downside to installing the driver with the Nvidia installer is that you have to re-install it manually if you update your kernel, but since updating your kernel would break more than just that I don't really see a downside.