ndiswrapper problem
I have a problem with ndiswrapper on Sid.
I have a built-in broadcom wireless chip in my laptop. I've been using
ndiswrapper with it and it's worked fine. I also have a netgear wg11t
usb wireless dongle. I have used it before in combination with
ndiswrapper and the broadcom chip without problems, but it is now giving
me problems.
Here is what dmesg gives me. I'll put the output for the broadcom chip
first and the the netgear chip.
ndiswrapper version 1.30 loaded (preempt=no,smp=no)
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12ac
piix4_smbus 0000:00:14.0: Found 0000:00:14.0 device
ndiswrapper: driver bcmwl5 (Broadcom,03/23/2006, 4.40.19.0) loaded
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:06:02.0[A] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 177
ndiswrapper: using IRQ 177
Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 6.2, id: 0x1a0b1, caps:
0xa04713/0x200000
input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /class/input/input2
ts: Compaq touchscreen protocol output
wlan0: ethernet device 00:14:a5:6f:db:d0 using NDIS driver: bcmwl5,
version: 0x4281300, NDIS version: 0x501, vendor: '', 14E4:4318.5.conf
wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP; TKIP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK;
AES/CCMP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK
ndiswrapper: driver netwg11t (NETGEAR,01/07/2005,1.0.1.1007) loaded
MC'97 0 converters and GPIO not ready (0x1)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:14.5[B] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 209
cs: IO port probe 0x100-0x3af: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x3e0-0x4ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x820-0x8ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0xc00-0xcf7: excluding 0xc00-0xc07 0xc10-0xc17
0xc50-0xc57 0xc68-0xc6f 0xcd0-0xcdf
cs: IO port probe 0xa00-0xaff: clean.
ndiswrapper (NdisWriteErrorLogEntry:231): log: C0001389, count: 4,
return_address: f8b32c6b
ndiswrapper (NdisWriteErrorLogEntry:234): code: 0xdf9f8678
ndiswrapper (NdisWriteErrorLogEntry:234): code: 0x28
ndiswrapper (NdisWriteErrorLogEntry:234): code: 0xf7840000
ndiswrapper (NdisWriteErrorLogEntry:234): code: 0xf7840000
ndiswrapper (miniport_init:270): couldn't initialize device: C0000001
ndiswrapper (pnp_start_device:426): Windows driver couldn't initialize
the device (C0000001)
unregister_netdevice: device eth%d/df9f8000 never was registered
ndiswrapper (miniport_halt:327): device df9f8280 is not initialized -
not halting
ndiswrapper: device eth%d removed
ndiswrapper: probe of 3-1:1.0 failed with error -22
usbcore: registered new driver ndiswrapper
I have both the atheros and netwg11t .inf's installed with ndiswrapper.
Here is the output of ndiswrapper -l
ndiswrapper -l
athfmwdl : driver installed
device (1385:4251) present
bcmwl5 : driver installed
device (14E4:4318) present (alternate driver: bcm43xx)
netwg11t : driver installed
device (1385:4251) present
The ndiwrapper listing site seemingly says to install both the .inf
and .sys files, but ndiswrapper gives me the following error with
the .sys files. There are several of the .sys files and I have tried
them all with the same result.
couldn't get manufacturer section - installation may be incomplete
ndiwrapper then reports the .sys driver to be invalid with running
ndiswrapper -l
uname -a
Linux lappy 2.6.18-4-486 #1 Wed Feb 21 15:25:16 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
dpkg -l | grep ndiswrapper
ii ndiswrapper-common 1.37-1
Common scripts required to use the utilities
ii ndiswrapper-modules-2.6.18-4-486 1.30-1+2.6.18.dfsg.1-9
Ndiswrapper linux kernel module
ii ndiswrapper-source 1.37-1
Source for the ndiswrapper linux kernel modu
ii ndiswrapper-utils-1.9 1.37-1
Userspace utilities for the ndiswrapper linu
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