#18 2.6.19 kernel

[Giridhar Pemmasani]

Following patch fixes an issue with 2.6.19 kernel. This is needed for atheros drivers (possibly couple of others). To apply this patch, run

cat vmalloc-patch | patch -p0

in kernel source's top directory.

[Giridhar Pemmasani]

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[Giridhar Pemmasani]

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For atheros PCI driver with 2.6.19 and later kernels (as of now), apply vmalloc-path to kernel and atheros patch to ndiswrapper/driver.

[Santiago M. Mola]

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You may want to look at this bug: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157958
When using kernel 2.6.19, ndiswrapper makes wireles-tools crashing all system. In this bug, someone pointed a possible direction to the solution.

[Giridhar Pemmasani]

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That bug has nothing to do with the patch proposed here.

Use latest ndiswrapper (1.31 or 1.32-rc2) and see if they fix the issue. If not, post a bug report with all details (see wiki entry Bugs).

[Giridhar Pemmasani]

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These patches are no longer required (with 1.34-rc2).