Re: ndiswrapper problem (solved)
I noticed there was an upgrade to the ndiswrapper source code and tools
so installed them and m-a'ed a new ndiswrapper module into the kernel.
Voila, problem solved.
So, to whoever the developer is that is responsible for maintaining
ndiswrapper, Thank you.
On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 12:47 -0800, Freddy Freeloader wrote:
> 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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