Hey everybody,

I just installed RHEL4 on my Dell Dimension 9100 and but im having trouble getting my Dell wireless usb 1450 nic to play well with ndiswrapper. heres what im doing:

ndiswrapper ~/drivers/dellnic.inf <-installs the driver
modprobe ndiswrapper <- insmod's the wrapper
iwconfig wlan0 mode managed essid xxxx <- sets my nic to infrastructure and sets the ssid
dhclient <- to give it a ip address

at which point all is well for about 30 - 45 seconds
after that my system freezes causing my to do a hard-reboot. After some digging this is all i could find out.

Sep 11 16:54:43 localhost kernel: [<c02ceae5>] schedule+0x2d/0x87a
Sep 11 16:54:43 localhost kernel: [<c011e5ad>] __wake_up+0x29/0x3c
Sep 11 16:54:43 localhost kernel: [<c01303a8>] worker_thread+0xc9/0x1d5
Sep 11 16:54:43 localhost kernel: [<f8a62ca7>] ndis_worker+0x0/0x275 [ndiswrap$
Sep 11 16:54:43 localhost kernel: [<c011e527>] default_wake_function+0x0/0xc
Sep 11 16:54:43 localhost kernel: [<c011e527>] default_wake_function+0x0/0xc
Sep 11 16:54:43 localhost kernel: [<c01302df>] worker_thread+0x0/0x1d5
Sep 11 16:54:43 localhost kernel: [<c01339d1>] kthread+0x73/0x9b
Sep 11 16:54:43 localhost kernel: [<c013395e>] kthread+0x0/0x9b
Sep 11 16:54:43 localhost kernel: [<c01041f1>] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0xb

but i have NO idea what it means.... HELP!!
Thanks in Advance..
bill

That's often caused by the wrong driver, or the wrong stack size in your kernel. Are you sure the dellnic.inf file is the right one?

Yea im sure its the right driver, dont know about the stack size. how do i find out which size stack im using?

If your kernel has /proc/config.gz, you can do: "zcat /proc/config.gz | grep STACK".

it shows no /proc/config.gz

ok, heres an update. I just installed the 16kstacks patch and im still having the same problem. anyone have any suggestions?

I have a Dell Dimension 5000 and exactly the same card as you have. I've got a CD with native drivers for it, but unfortunately I can't get them to work, probably because they are made for kernel 2.4 (i use 2.6.12).

You can download the drivers here and see if they work for you: http://samuellb2.homeip.net/2005/11/...D1450U.iso.bz2
Dell has some info on their Linux drivers here: http://linux.dell.com/