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