I was able to download FC3 on Monday, and so yesterday like a dutiful husband I went t oupgrade my wife's laptop yesterday (Dell Inspiron 1100, with D-Link DWL-G650 wireless card). Previously (FC1), the wireless card was working with the Linuxant package (I tried both ndiswrapper and madwifi and was unable to get either to work), so I wanted to continue using it in FC3. However, trying to update the drivers via their browser interface and then add license information froze the entire machine. There is indeed a command-line interface to add license info, and this *seems* to take the new license info without a problem, but it doesn't "stick". Running the info command shows that I am still lacking license info. Trying to run the diag dump command returns a stack trace, at which point the whole machine freezes. Needless to say, the card isn't working properly in linux (though it is in WinXP - this is a dual-boot machine). I therefore contacted Linuxant support. It appears that the decision to go to 4k stacks has caused them some consternation; they've recommended replacing/patching the kernel. I asked about possible support for 4k stacks in the future, and got this response: "we have implemented a stack workaround in DriverLoader but unfortunately it doesn't work on the Fedora Core 3 kernel because there are other problematic patches inserted into this kernel. The only solution now available is to use our own 16K stacks kernel which is basically a Fedora Core 3 kernel which we added a 16K stacks patch and removed other problematic patches like the 4G/4G patch." Therefore, the suggestion is to: 1) Download a vanilla kernel from kernel.org and apply the following patch: http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/wlan/full/archive/linux-2.6.9-16kstacks .patch 2) Potentially use the 2.6.9-1.667 source from the Fedora CD/download, and patch that (as above). 3) They have what may be a pre-patched 2.6.9 kernel on their site: http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/wlan/full/archive/driverloader-2.09/dri verloader-2.09_k2.6.9_1.667-1fdr.i686.rpm.zip (or http://tinyurl.com/57oqs) I'll try these, in reverse order, tonight if I can, and report back. While I'm sure others here will have suggestions and comments, I wanted to get this info out so that others who may have a similar problem will be able to see this. -Don
