In article <1172261283.26502.33.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Rick Stevens <rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 13:11 -0600, Frank Cox wrote: > > On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 16:53:06 +0000 (GMT) > > Mark Fraser <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > First of all where as I'm told I should be able to type just > > > ndiswrapper into a console window, I have to type > > > /usr/sbin/ndiswrapper same goes for iwconfig for which I have to type > > > /sbin/iwconfig and I still can't seem to do a scan. > > > > Type this: > > > > su - > > > > And then try your commands. > Explanation: "su" by itself gives you the UID and GID of root. "su -" > (with the dash) gives you the UID and GID of root AND root's environment > (environment variables, path, etc.). Essentially the dash says "do a > full login of me as root". Thanks for that. I did manage to get ndiswrapper working for a while, but then the whole computer locked up. This looks like it is due to the difference in stack sizes between the kernel and the driver I am trying to use. From what I have read, this requires recompiling the kernel to use a 8KB stack which is beyond me at the moment.
