Greetings:
I'm just installed Centos-4 on an IBM T-21 laptop. So far so good. Now
I'd like to pop in a wireless lan adapter. I'm looking at a buying a
Linksys WPC54G adapter (although I haven't done so yet).
After doing some searching, it looks like the best way to get this card
working is via ndiswrapper [http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net] and then
to use Windoze drivers.
So I downloaded ndiswrapper and during the install, I received a warning
message referring to "4K Stacks" and that NOT disabling 4k stacks can
cause some drivers to crash. The docs went on to suggest I recompile the
kernel to disable CONFIG_4KSTACKS.
Question: For really like to stick to the stock CentOS-4 kernel and not
create/use a custom one. Has anyone had a problem using the Linksys
WPC54G Cardbus adapter + Centos-4 and NOT had to use a custom kernel?
For that matter, since I haven't purchased the card yet, can I get a
recommendation or two about a workable wlan cardbus (g) adapter that
could most likely be found at Best Buy/CompUSA/Fry's ? I'd like to be
able to easily return the card if things don't work...
I did some searching a decent card and it seems that a number of good
wlan chipsets are discontinued or hard to find, so I'm slightly confused
as to what to get.
Thank you.
Michael Chinn
