[ale] Anyone successfully used build in wireless on HP laptops?

[Jimmy Oliver]

Driverloader is a commerical version of ndiswrapper that works nicely
for me and my intel 2200bg card.  Some distro's ship with kernels that
have small kernel stack sizes.  Read the quote below.
<quote>
The default stack size in original Fedora Core 2 kernels is only 4K.
Because some drivers require more stack space to operate properly, we
recommend using a kernel with a larger stack size if you experience
problems or crashes. You can either rebuild your own custom kernel, or
get one of our replacement "stk16" kernels provided for your
convenience http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/wlan/full/downloads-fc2-kernel-i586.php.
They are identical to the Fedora kernels, except that the stack size
was increased to 16K and the problematic 4G/4G patch removed.
</quote>
This might fix your issue.  Grab one of the kernels provided by these
guys, and then retry ndiswrapper.

-Jimmy

On Wed, 8 Sep 2004 13:22:35 -0500, Richard <ratcheson at earthlink.net> wrote:
> On Wednesday 08 September 2004 05:57 am, Philip Polstra wrote:
> > I teach computer science (plus math, physics, and aviation) at a local
> > high school.  For all of our programming classes we use Fedora Core 1.
> >  I recently set up my HP Pavilion zv5000 series laptop to dual boot XP
> > and FC2.  I have yet to be able get the wireless to work.  I have the
> > dreaded Broadcom chipset.  In particular chipset BCM4306/BCM2050 on
> > board V103C D12F4 Rev 4.4.
> >
> > I've tried NDISWrapper, but every time I try to activate the interface
> > the computer locks solid.  Anyone else have success with one of these?
> >  I have wireless at the school, at my office at the airport, and at my
> > house so it would really be convienent to get this working.
> >
> > Thanks,
> 
> 
> I've used the ndiswrapper on SuSE 9.0 & 9.1 on a Compaq and other Laptops
> and desktops with little trouble.  I have a HowTo written for newbies that
> gives fairly detailed steps for installation if you're interested.  Maybe
> you can adapt it to FC2 and others could benefit from it.  Let me know if
> you would like a copy.
> Richard
> 
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