[Ndiswrapper-general] hard lockup with fedora 3.

[Alexandre S. <su...@su...>]

Hello list,

I have the following prism54 card:
00:08.0 Network controller: Intersil Corporation ISL3886 [Prism
Javelin/Prism Xbow] (rev 01)

Which does not work yet with prism54's drivers. So I tried ndiswrapper.

Downloaded ndiswrapper 0.12. Kernel 2.6.9-1.698 (Fedora Core 3)
complained : "kernel: ndiswrapper: Unknown symbol task_nice"

So I grabbed kernel with 16k stack from linuxant. It made things worse.

When the machine tries to raise the ndiswrapper module, the kernel locks
up.

During a reboot, fedora tried to load ndiswrapper again. I got a new
reboot.

The message was:

ndiswrapper (ndisacquirespinlock:950): windows driver trying to get
uninitialized lock d1697774, fixing it

Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ffff3d89

And then it locked up. 

Dmesg says:

Jan 17 20:46:31 casa kernel: ndiswrapper version 0.12 loaded
(preempt=no,smp=no)Jan 17 20:46:31 casa kernel: PCI: Found IRQ 11 for
device 0000:00:08.0
Jan 17 20:46:31 casa kernel: PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:10.0
Jan 17 20:46:31 casa kernel: ndiswrapper: using irq 11
Jan 17 20:46:31 casa kernel: ndiswrapper (NdisAcquireSpinLock:950):
Windows driver trying to use uninitialized lock d1697774, fixing it.
Jan 17 20:51:18 casa syslogd 1.4.1: restart.


Am I doing something wrong? What should I do?