how to disable 4K stack size

[wahaha]

halo... i am currently using fedora core 4, 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4. I did installed ndiswrapper into my distro and my laptop hang when i typed "modprobe ndiswrapper". This is due to stack size of fedora core 4 only got 4K, so I am going to upgrade to 16K by downloading the rpm package from:
http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader...ernel-i686.php

I did installed it by "rpm -ivh kernel-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4.stk16.i686.rpm ".

When i restart my laptop, boatloader will shown 3 options, one is fedora core 4, fedora core 4 stack size 16K and window XP.

I did realised that i did not disable the 4K stack size and i am still not sure how to reconfigure and recompile the 16K stack size.

Can anyone give me some guide lines how to reconfigure and recompile it ???

Your advices much appreciated.

[wahaha]

sorry for my stupid mistake.....the package i did installed is kernel-2.6.11-1.369_FC4.stk16.i686

[Weedman]

All you need to do is boot that "16K stack" listing on the boot screen.

But I am assuming that you want to remove the other Kernel option on the boot screen...

You will need the version of the 4k kernel, which is usually as simple as looking at the boot screen for it.

You will also need to use "rpm" to uninstall that 4k kernel. I am, however, unsure about the command line options that you would give "rpm" to uninstall a package.

weed

[wahaha]

i did boot into 16K stack , after that when i tried to install ndiswrapper-1.20, on the step "make", there is error message :

[root@hb2b-219 ndiswrapper-1.20]# make
make -C driver
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/kokchin/Desktop/ndiswrapper-1.20/driver'
Can't find kernel build files in /lib/modules/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.stk16/build;
give the path to kernel build directory with
KBUILD=<path> argument to make
make[1]: *** [prereq_check] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/kokchin/Desktop/ndiswrapper-1.20/driver'
make: *** [all] Error 2

I did checked my kernel header's file as shown :

[kokchin@hb2b-219 ~]$ rpm -qa kernel-devel
kernel-devel-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4
kernel-devel-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4

Actually, I did update the kernel-devel before installing the 16K stack size, by typing " yum install kernel-devel" and it installed the kernel-devel-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4.

Did anyone know what is the problem??
Your advices are much appreciated.

[kakarot_11]

i did boot into 16K stack , after that when i tried to install ndiswrapper-1.20, on the step "make", there is error message :

[root@hb2b-219 ndiswrapper-1.20]# make
make -C driver
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/kokchin/Desktop/ndiswrapper-1.20/driver'
Can't find kernel build files in /lib/modules/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.stk16/build;
give the path to kernel build directory with
KBUILD=<path> argument to make
make[1]: *** [prereq_check] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/kokchin/Desktop/ndiswrapper-1.20/driver'
make: *** [all] Error 2

I did checked my kernel header's file as shown :

[kokchin@hb2b-219 ~]$ rpm -qa kernel-devel
kernel-devel-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4
kernel-devel-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4

Actually, I did update the kernel-devel before installing the 16K stack size, by typing " yum install kernel-devel" and it installed the kernel-devel-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4.

Did anyone know what is the problem??
Your advices are much appreciated.

Try the following:
rpm -Uhv kernel-version.rpm then restart
rpm -Uhv kernel-devel-version.rpm then restart
In FC4, I believe the next command is:
ln -s /usr/src/kernels/kernelversion /lib/modules/kernelversion/build
If ln -s doesn't work try ln -fs
cd into ndiswrapper
make install
cd into driver directory
ndiswrapper -i driver.inf
ndiswrapper -l to see if it's installed. Hopefully it will display something similar to
driver installed, hardware present
modprobe ndiswrapper
cd into /etc
add the line:
alias wlan0 ndiswrapper
to modprobe.conf
Open the network manager and add a wireless device. With any luck it will hopefully work.