[CentOS] CentOS 5 and ndiswrapper

Wed May 2 01:32:59 UTC 2007
Barry Brimer <lists at brimer.org>

> Does anyone have any idea why the un-patched kernel from kernel.org works 
> fine with ndiswrapper but both the FC6 and CentOS (RHEL) kernels lock up or 
> spontaneously reboot?  I built the 2.6.21 kernel by copying the config file 
> for 2.6.18-8.1.1 from /boot and doing a "make oldconfig".  Everything is 
> x86_64.

<http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/joomla/index.php?/component/option,com_openwiki/Itemid,33/id,faq/>

See Item #2.

Summary:

Red Hat/Fedora uses a 4k stack size.  Doesn't work well with ndiswrapper, 
or rather with the drivers you are trying to use with ndiswrapper.

Barry