imwithstupid Posted July 23, 2004 Report Share Posted July 23, 2004 So I finally got my wireless PC card installed on my laptop. It is a xterasys card which everyone said has a realtek chipset but as it turns out it has a admtek set. (this was all done using a copy of ndiswrapper that i compiled). Now everytime i boot the computer when it gets to wlan0 the amber light blinks on the card for a bit and then I either get a kernel panic or a complete freeze up of the system. However, I tried popping the card out before ndiswrapper or init or whatever could finish looking for a wireless network and the system starts up fine. Later when I put in the card it continues blinking like it should. Now all I have to do is get me to a wireless spot (yeah no neighbors have wireless...go figure) and see if it actually works or if its all messed up. An ideas on why it panics or freezes? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted July 23, 2004 Report Share Posted July 23, 2004 This could be a longshot, but I had a problem with my HPN network cards once giving me a kernel panic and it had to do with ifplugd. Try what I did here: http://mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showtop...indpost&p=42347 (I would make backups of the two files I mention before trying this in case you need to revert back) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imwithstupid Posted July 24, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 24, 2004 I went to a wireless spot and it works. The panic doesn't worry me that much ...it won't hurt anything right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted July 24, 2004 Report Share Posted July 24, 2004 As long as you are happy with waiting till after it boots to plug it in, everything should be fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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