Greetings:
I'm just installed Centos-4 on an IBM T-21 laptop. So far so good. Now I'd like to pop in a wireless lan adapter. I'm looking at a buying a Linksys WPC54G adapter (although I haven't done so yet).
After doing some searching, it looks like the best way to get this card working is via ndiswrapper [http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net] and then to use Windoze drivers.
So I downloaded ndiswrapper and during the install, I received a warning message referring to "4K Stacks" and that NOT disabling 4k stacks can cause some drivers to crash. The docs went on to suggest I recompile the kernel to disable CONFIG_4KSTACKS.
Question: For really like to stick to the stock CentOS-4 kernel and not create/use a custom one. Has anyone had a problem using the Linksys WPC54G Cardbus adapter + Centos-4 and NOT had to use a custom kernel?
For that matter, since I haven't purchased the card yet, can I get a recommendation or two about a workable wlan cardbus (g) adapter that could most likely be found at Best Buy/CompUSA/Fry's ? I'd like to be able to easily return the card if things don't work...
I did some searching a decent card and it seems that a number of good wlan chipsets are discontinued or hard to find, so I'm slightly confused as to what to get.
Thank you. Michael Chinn
I use this card with no problem whatsoever: http://store.yahoo.com/str8buy/proxorwirgol.html
Michael wrote:
Greetings:
I'm just installed Centos-4 on an IBM T-21 laptop. So far so good. Now I'd like to pop in a wireless lan adapter. I'm looking at a buying a Linksys WPC54G adapter (although I haven't done so yet).
After doing some searching, it looks like the best way to get this card working is via ndiswrapper [http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net] and then to use Windoze drivers.
So I downloaded ndiswrapper and during the install, I received a warning message referring to "4K Stacks" and that NOT disabling 4k stacks can cause some drivers to crash. The docs went on to suggest I recompile the kernel to disable CONFIG_4KSTACKS.
Question: For really like to stick to the stock CentOS-4 kernel and not create/use a custom one. Has anyone had a problem using the Linksys WPC54G Cardbus adapter + Centos-4 and NOT had to use a custom kernel?
For that matter, since I haven't purchased the card yet, can I get a recommendation or two about a workable wlan cardbus (g) adapter that could most likely be found at Best Buy/CompUSA/Fry's ? I'd like to be able to easily return the card if things don't work...
I did some searching a decent card and it seems that a number of good wlan chipsets are discontinued or hard to find, so I'm slightly confused as to what to get.
Thank you. Michael Chinn _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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