On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 09:36:46AM -0800, Adam McKenna wrote: > On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 02:38:53PM +0100, Gabor Gombas wrote: > > One point that nobody raised so far: _reliable_ working on ndiswrapper > > depends on the 16k-stack patch that is not available in Debian AFAIK. > > Without that patch, drivers requiring ndiswrapper (being free or not) > > only work by pure chance. So whatever the Depends: line says, > > ndiswrapper for any practical purposes depends on software that is not > > in main. > > I've been using ndiswrapper with stock kernels since 0.2 or 0.3, and I have > never heard of the '16k-stack patch'.
The thing is: Windows has a 16k stack for drivers. The Linux kernel has either a 4k + 4k stack or an 8k stack, depending on what version of the kernel you use. Most drivers don't need >8k stack (some might even work with 4k too), but some do, thus you need to patch the kernel to provide 16k stacks (this is really bad for other reasons). Regards: David Weinehall -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Rime on my window (\ // ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ // Diamond-white roses of fire // \) http://www.acc.umu.se/~tao/ (/ Beautiful hoar-frost (/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
