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Topic: Wireless Woes, NDISWrapper causes kernel halt

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scotf

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Posted: Mar. 30 2005,13:14

I am relatively new to linux and very new to DSL. I am having trouble with my Netgear WG311v2 wireless network card.

I have installed the driver with ndiswrapper -i. When i run ndiswrapper -l, the WG311v2 card reports hardware present. As soon as I try to configure the ESSID and encryption key, things are well and good for some seconds (15 - 30) then the computer completely freezes. I believe the kernel has halted.

This is exactly the same behaviour I had with Red Hat FC3, which was fixed by using a kernel supporting 16K stacks.

Anyone have any suggestions?

Kind Regards

Scot

cbagger01

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Posted: Mar. 30 2005,18:40

Copy the gcc1 and kernel source dsl extensions over to your new computer, install them via the "myDSL" button inside the Emeflm file manager and then apply 16K stack changes and then compile yourself a new kernel.

All of this asumes that you have a hd installed system.

scotf

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Posted: Mar. 30 2005,21:05

Thanks cbagger! The advice is a bit for naught, however. I found a linksys WRM54Gv4 in the garage. Replaced the netgear and viola ... wireless networking! If it's flaky, i will do the larger stack size.

Freitag

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Posted: Mar. 30 2005,22:03

Hi. I also have some wireless difficulties and am new to DSL.

I have a Gateway solo and Orinoco gold card (WiFi 11 Mbits/s Gold). During boot DSL detects the card and it briefly (one flash) does something. The Netcardconfig also briefly flashes the cards access lights green but then reports:

"Sending DHCP broadcast from device eth0 Operation Failed."

Also when I try:

ndiswrapper -i /mnt/hda1/windows/wlluc48b.inf

I get an error message from this command that the hardware is not found.

Any help would be very appreciated

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