[driverloader] Driverloader works well but.....

[Linuxant support (Jonathan)]

Hi,

the Atheros Windows XP driver is know to require more than 4K of stacks. 
On the original Fedora Core 2 kernels, in most cases, you will be unable 
to use the stack workaround as there are special patches to the Fedora 
Core 2 kernel which makes the stack workaround incompatible with this 
kernel.

Since you have problems with the Fedora Core 2 kernel we provide, you 
could try with a fresh 2.6.9 kernel from http://www.kernel.org to see if 
there is a difference. Please make sure that you compile this kernel 
without the 'CONFIG_4KSTACKS' option enabled which is now "on" by 
default if I recall.

Regards,


Jonathan
Technical specialist / Linuxant
www.linuxant.com
support at linuxant.com


Jonathan Baron wrote:
> On 11/15/04 08:39, John Pedersen wrote:
> 
>>Thanks Jonathan, I was figuring that I'd have to reinstall FC2 but your
>>suggestion sounds better.
>>
>>Were you able to do an upgrade or did you do a clean install of FC3?
> 
> 
> Upgrade. (But make sure to do
> yum update
> very soon.)
> 
> 
>>John
>>
>>Jonathan Baron wrote:
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>>
>>>On 11/14/04 10:03, John Pedersen wrote:
>>>
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>>>
>>>>Hi folks,
>>>>So everything at the driverloader end works fine.... but I'm getting
>>>>some real flakiness at boot up that I can only attribute to the new
>>>>kernel.  Specifically, the windows manager (generally gnome) will hang
>>>>trying to initiate services.  The fedora 2 splash will come up but the
>>>>graphical bar associated with service start up doesn't appear and the
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>I am assuming you mean the Gnome panel, but I'm not sure.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>system stays in that state.  This behavior is inconsistent and generally
>>>>doing ctrl-alt-backspace and restarting the x server will usually solve
>>>>the problem.  Less often, the system will hang on shutdown.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>I was having problems like this with FC2 on a desktop computer
>>>that did not have wireless at all.  I fixed it by updating Gnome
>>>to the development version.  Then I updated to FC3 and everything
>>>got better still.  _Much_ better on my laptop, which also had
>>>slow booting problems possibly associated with Driverloader.
>>>
>>>The upgrade to FC3 was the smoothest I've ever done (on 3
>>>computers so far - the 4th runs mailman, which will require
>>>re-configuration, so I'm waiting until I have some time).
>>>Everything just worked.  And it worked better and faster - e.g.,
>>>Gnome cut and paste finally does what it should do.  I had to
>>>re-size my terminal windows, but that was all.  I recommend an
>>>upgrade.
>>>
>>>I have not been using the Linuxant kernels for a while since I've
>>>found that the "workaround=stack" thing seems to prevent crashes,
>>>but I have a different wireless from yours.
>>>
>>>I doubt the problem is in the kernel.  By the time Xorg starts
>>>up, the kernel is pretty much finished its part of the boot
>>>process.
>>>
>>>Jon
>>>
>>>
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