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roberts

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Posted: Jan. 28 2008,04:16

If I recall 64MB is mighty slim to use ndiswrapper. Ndiswrapper tries to grab much real memory for its use. Might check dmesg or even start syslog just for the purpose of checking. Also would check for possible irq conflict. Does the ndiswrapper site specify which Windows driver to use and which version(s) of ndiswrapper are needed?

McKenna

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Posted: Jan. 28 2008,18:41

Hello Robert,

thanks for your advice. The version of the windows driver is recommended on the ndiswrapper site and it used to work on my Kanotix system. I have tested all 3 different recommended ones.

But I will check about the low ram. I might add some ram and test and I will also test on a different PC (the one with Kanotix) which does have more ram and a different mainboard.

Regards

McKenna

PS: During testing I also tried DSL on a more modern machine (AMD Athlon XP2500). During this running in toram mode I discovered the fantastic performance of DSL. Amazing what you have created.

McKenna

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Posted: Jan. 30 2008,20:21

Okay the problem seems to be my hardware. I've tried 4.2.5 and had the same problems again. Then tried 4.2.5 on my other machine and ndiswrapper worked just fine with the same windows driver.
I will check with more RAM on the old hardware. Might take some days. I keep you posted.
Thanks for the advice.

McKenna

andrewb

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Posted: Jan. 30 2008,23:08

I had a similar problem with a generic USB WLAN stick. It had one of the Zydas chips in it. The source code for the required module was provided & compiling that was the only way I could get the thing to run. It too froze the system trying to use ndiswrapper with the Windows driver provided.

The same system (Toshiba Libretto 100CT, 166 MHz pentium, 64Mb RAM) runs a tp-link pcmcia WLAN card very happily using ndiswrapper.

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