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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]