I finally got a clean compile of CentOS with 4K stacks disabled, and the
Airlink drivers under ndiswrapper no longer freeze the machine. And the
iwlist scan can now find hotspots even through walls and at a distance, si
it's beating the hell out of the on-board wireless.
But I'm not connecting. It's probably me (tired, hurried() and as soon as
I remember how to configure a box, it'll fall into place.
FWIW
iwlist wlan0 scan
wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"marconi" Nickname:"clinton"
Mode:Ad-Hoc Frequency:2.437 GHz Cell: 02:E0:1C:55:45:16
Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power:20 dBm Sensitivity=0/3
RTS thr=2347 B Fragment thr=2346 B
Power Management:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
iwcongig
wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"marconi" Nickname:"clinton"
Mode:Ad-Hoc Frequency:2.437 GHz Cell: 02:E0:1C:55:45:16
Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power:20 dBm Sensitivity=0/3
RTS thr=2347 B Fragment thr=2346 B
Power Management:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
iwcongig
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:11:A3:08:4F:B2
inet addr:192.168.100.60 Bcast:192.168.100.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
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