[CentOS] ndiswrapper and 4K stacks problem (system freezes)

Sat May 17 13:43:46 UTC 2008
Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com>

On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 6:35 AM, Timothy Kesten <centos-lst at gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I'm trying tio install WLAN - USB - Stick Netgear WG111v3.
>
> ndiswrapper -i wg111v3
>
> works.
>
> I can see ndiswrapper -l
>
>        wg111v3: driver installed
>        device (0846:4260) present
>
> But after modprobe ndiswrapper the system freezes.
>
> Troublshooting on ndiswrapper-sites says:
>
> It's a problem of "kernel is using 4K stacks (CONFIG_4KSTACKS)"
>
> Solution: recompile the kernel.
>
> That's no good solution.
> Is there a knowing "CentOS-like" solution for this problem?

Need more info here...

What is your kernel version, arch?  uname -mr ?
How did you install ndiswrapper?

Akemi