Hello, I recently upgraded from the 2.4 kernel to 2.6.14.4 (I needed to as ndiswrapper wouldn't work with 2.4). I have been noticing that when I download large files or am on the internet for a long enough time everything freezes, sometimes the mouse still moves and sometimes everything goes. I was receiving messages about the kernel stack being 4k instead of 8k (in those situations the kernel I made didn't have the 4k option on but still complained of this) and today I built a kernel where that message doesn't come up when I build ndiswrapper; yet it still freezes. Does anyone have any ideas?

Are you by any chance using an Nvidia graphics card?

If yes, then these two posts of mine might be of interest to you:
http://www.heritage-tech.net/187/doe...ur-firefox-15/
http://www.heritage-tech.net/192/fix...firefox-issue/

Out of curiosity, what problem did you have using ndiswrapper on 2.4? It used to work fine for me when I was on 2.4.

Brian

Thanks for your replies; however I am not running an Nvidia card, I have one from ATI; however I will check my .config file to see if there are any nvidia type modules that are being used on startup. One thing also, is it because I'm using framebuffer? I use it but I don't get the penguin at bootup...

The problems I had were odd; I have generally ONLY used slackware based distros because I have heard of slack's legendary stability and simplicity which I liked. In all of the distros I have used when I compile ndiswrapper and installed the driver and then modprobe, the modprobe command leads to an error, or a crash, or anything that makes the system unusable until a reboot is performed; so to fix the problem I usually just upgrade the kernel and it works perfectly. It only freezes when I have been on the internet long enough or downloaded something big (such as the FRG .iso).