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Keeler

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Registered: 2010-01-19

Posts: 10

ndiswrapper troubles

I just purchased a Hawking Technology "Hi-Gain Wireless-N USB Network Dish Adapter" -- also known as HWDN2 Rev. E. It's this crazy wireless dish you can point around to amplify signals. What can I say, I had some cash to burn.

Anyhow, it obviously did not work right out of the box. I Googled around a bit and figured out that it either used rt2870 (or perhaps rt2870sta), or I had to use ndiswrapper and pull drivers off the CD. From what I can gather, I do in fact need to use ndiswrapper. I followed the directions on the ArchWiki on how to get Windows drivers installed properly with ndiswrapper, but when I plug in the devide, here is what dmesg outputs:

usb 2-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
usb 2-3: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
ndiswrapper (import:233): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisMSendNetBufferListsComplete'
ndiswrapper (import:233): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisMDeregisterMiniportDriver'
ndiswrapper (import:233): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisFreeMdl'
ndiswrapper (import:233): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisAllocateNetBufferAndNetBufferList'
ndiswrapper (import:233): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisAllocateMdl'
ndiswrapper (import:233): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisFreeNetBufferListPool'
ndiswrapper (import:233): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisAllocateNetBufferListPool'
ndiswrapper (import:233): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisMIndicateReceiveNetBufferLists'
ndiswrapper (import:233): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisMSetMiniportAttributes'
ndiswrapper (import:233): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisOpenConfigurationEx'
ndiswrapper (import:233): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisMIndicateStatusEx'
ndiswrapper (import:233): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisMOidRequestComplete'
ndiswrapper (import:233): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisMRegisterMiniportDriver'
ndiswrapper (import:233): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisAllocateIoWorkItem'
ndiswrapper (import:233): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisFreeIoWorkItem'
ndiswrapper (import:233): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisQueueIoWorkItem'
ndiswrapper (import:233): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisAllocateMemoryWithTagPriority'
ndiswrapper (import:233): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisMAllocatePort'
ndiswrapper (import:233): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisMNetPnPEvent'
ndiswrapper (import:233): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisMFreePort'
ndiswrapper (import:233): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisFreeNetBufferList'
ndiswrapper (import:233): unknown symbol: WDFLDR.SYS:'WdfVersionBind'
ndiswrapper (import:233): unknown symbol: WDFLDR.SYS:'WdfVersionBindClass'
ndiswrapper (import:233): unknown symbol: WDFLDR.SYS:'WdfVersionUnbindClass'
ndiswrapper (import:233): unknown symbol: WDFLDR.SYS:'WdfVersionUnbind'
ndiswrapper (load_sys_files:206): couldn't prepare driver 'net8192su'
ndiswrapper (load_wrap_driver:108): couldn't load driver net8192su; check system log for messages from 'loadndisdriver'

Anyone know what the deal is here?

Keeler

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Registered: 2010-01-19

Posts: 10

Re: ndiswrapper troubles

by the way, I tried installing drivers for several different supported Windows operating systems found on the install CD, including WinXP, Vista64, Win7 64, etc. Whenever the OS was not 64 bit, dmesg showed errors since my machine is 64 bit. However, when I installed drivers for a 64bit architecture, dmesg shows what I posted above.

Ndiswrapper does show this, however:

[matt@eros ]$ ndiswrapper -l
net8192su : driver installed
    device (0E66:0015) present
[matt@eros ]$