On Wednesday 15 December 2004 12:20 pm, Jan Elders wrote:
Hello,
Some time ago, I installed Ndiswrapper 0.12 on my SuSE 2.6.5-7.111.5-default in order to get my new SMC 2835W wireless LAN card working. (Ndiswrapper is needed because this version of the 2835W uses a Frisbee chip, for which there are no Linux drivers yet)
That worked fine .... for a few minutes and then my system "froze". I could not think of a particular reason for that to happen, but I suspected that maybe something was wrong in my kernel. So, I decided to install the latest 2.6.9 kernel from kernel.org. That went well and I could work with the card via ndiswrapper ....... for a while, after which also the 2.6.9 system "froze".
I am totally lost where to look for causes / clues. I don't see anything peculiar in my /var/log/messages, but maybe I'm overlooking something ?
Any ideas ?
I had some other issues with 2.6.5-7.111.5-default that was supplied by SuSE for SuSE 9.1 Professional. To get rid of these issues, I compiled and installed my own 2.6.8.1 and then 2.6.9 kernels. What I found was that it did fix some of these issues but created others. I then switched to kernel-of-the-day apt repositories' 2.6.8 kernel compiled for SuSE 9.1 and all my issues disappeared :). I haven't tried using ndiswrapper so YMMV but installing kernel from kernel-of-the-day apt repository is something worth a try. -- Osho