[ltp] Linksys WPC54G on Fedora Core 3 with Kernel 2.6.9

[Satish Balay]

On Mon, 29 Nov 2004, morpheus wrote:

> > > > If it has broadcom chipset (verifiable with /sbin/lspci) - ndiswrapper
> > > > is still the way to go. (perhaps with a 16k-stack kernel from linuxant)
> > 
> > > Yeah, it's broadcom...I've already set up ndiswrapper, pretty painless
> > > and I'm still on the Fedora 4k stack kernel...I've never really had
> > > trouble with it and I hate compiling the kernel ;-(
> > 
> > If you ever have problems - and want to try a 16k-stack kernel - you
> > can get precompiled kernel from
> > http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/wlan/full/downloads-fc3-kernel-i686.php
> > 
> 
> Thanks...does anyone know what else the 16k stack gets me?  Do I get
> better performance, stability, etc.?  Or is this just an issue with
> ndiswrapper only?

As far as I know - its primarily for windows binary drivers.

This kernel also removes 4G/4G patch - so, if you use it on 'vmware' -
you avoid 'performance degradation' in the vm.

Satish