FC3 wireless setup

Hello All,

Has anyone successfully used a Linksys WPC54G wireless card with FC3
and ndiswrapper? I would be interested in hearing the details if you
have.

I'm running the 2.6.9-1.667 kernel and ndiswrapper-1.1 with no luck. I
keep getting kernel panics when I try to load ndiswrapper.

Thank you.

(E-Mail Removed) wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> Has anyone successfully used a Linksys WPC54G wireless card with FC3
> and ndiswrapper? I would be interested in hearing the details if you
> have.
>
> I'm running the 2.6.9-1.667 kernel and ndiswrapper-1.1 with no luck. I
> keep getting kernel panics when I try to load ndiswrapper.

I had no problem at all. The laptop in question would be running
2.6.10-1.770_FC3.

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Thanks Paul, what version of ndiswrapper did you use and did you use
the Windows driver from the disk provided by Linksys?
Thanks again.

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> Hello All,
>
> Has anyone successfully used a Linksys WPC54G wireless card with FC3
> and ndiswrapper? I would be interested in hearing the details if you
> have.
>
> I'm running the 2.6.9-1.667 kernel and ndiswrapper-1.1 with no luck. I
> keep getting kernel panics when I try to load ndiswrapper.
>
> Thank you.
>
I'm currently also in the process of installing a Linksys wireless card
(PCI) WMP54G
I use FC3 2.6.9-1.681 with ndiswrapper-1.1
I can install ndiswrapper with /sbin/modprobe ndiswrapper
also I can issue command /sbin/iwconfig wlan0 mode Managed
But when I ussue command /sbin/iwconfig wlan0 key xxxxxxxxxxxxx
then the system returns with Segmentation error and I can not issue any
command in terminal since after this command terminal freezes
If I undertood you wel then you did not even reach this point?

Eddy

Hi Eddy,

I actually did reach that same problem initially with a Linksys Card
which was Version 4 of the firmware using RH9.0. I had another post
where I explained that my original linksys V2 card died and I returned
it to Linksys for another. I received a V4 card of the same model,
WPC54G. I was able to load ndiswrapper, set the Access point, essid,
etc, but when I tried setting the key, the card wouldn't accept it and
then the pcmcia services had to be restarted. Therefore, I thought the
later version of firmware was the problem, so I went and bought yet
another card that was a V2. At the same time I upgraded to Fedora Core
3 also thinking a newer kernel would be useful because ndiswrapper-0.10
was the latest that would work with the RH9.0 kernel.
Once I upgraded, ndiswrapper would compile all of the way up to version
1.1, but now caused a kernel panic, so I tried every release down to
0.9 to no avail. So, now I have two wireless cards that won't work and
I can't even load the driver anymore without freezing up the
machine....
They only work in "that other OS" of course....

(E-Mail Removed) wrote:
> Thanks Paul, what version of ndiswrapper did you use and did you use
> the Windows driver from the disk provided by Linksys?
> Thanks again.

Currently, my ndiswrapper is 1.1 but I've used most versions since 0.10
(and possibly before) without problem with the exception of a release
candiate which used to produce a complete lockup. The drivers were from
the supplied CD.


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> Hi Eddy,
>
> I actually did reach that same problem initially with a Linksys Card
> which was Version 4 of the firmware using RH9.0. I had another post
> where I explained that my original linksys V2 card died and I returned
> it to Linksys for another. I received a V4 card of the same model,
> WPC54G. I was able to load ndiswrapper, set the Access point, essid,
> etc, but when I tried setting the key, the card wouldn't accept it and
> then the pcmcia services had to be restarted. Therefore, I thought the
> later version of firmware was the problem, so I went and bought yet
> another card that was a V2. At the same time I upgraded to Fedora Core
> 3 also thinking a newer kernel would be useful because ndiswrapper-0.10
> was the latest that would work with the RH9.0 kernel.
> Once I upgraded, ndiswrapper would compile all of the way up to version
> 1.1, but now caused a kernel panic, so I tried every release down to
> 0.9 to no avail. So, now I have two wireless cards that won't work and
> I can't even load the driver anymore without freezing up the
> machine....
> They only work in "that other OS" of course....
>
Paul,
During installation of ndiswrapper I got a warning about 4k stack size. Some
searching revealed that some windows drivers require 12k or more. I also
found that at the Lucent ? site (driverloader) a kernel with 16k stack size
is available for download. Maybe this is the problem? I'l keep un
searching. But still hoping some one can give us a clue.

eddy

Ed wrote:
> Paul,
> During installation of ndiswrapper I got a warning about 4k stack size. Some
> searching revealed that some windows drivers require 12k or more. I also
> found that at the Lucent ? site (driverloader) a kernel with 16k stack size
> is available for download. Maybe this is the problem? I'l keep un
> searching. But still hoping some one can give us a clue.

I saw the warning and successfully pretended I hadn't!

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Oxfordshire. OX14 4SH Fax: +44 (0) 1235 821 141