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clu

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Registered: 2008-07-05

Posts: 40

WPC11 v.3 wireless card plugin -- change default loaded module??

I was working on gteeing wireless on a Dell Inspiron 4150 and had set ndiswrapper up. When I inserted the wireless card the system was totally unresponsive.
Upon reboot with the card in I get the error message:

Code: Bad EIP value.
EIP: [<00000000>] 0x0 SS:ESP 0068:d7bb7a00
Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt

There is also a trace that I could post if necessary...

I'm not sure why the kernel is having trouble with this card.
Any help is very appreciated.

Last edited by clu (2008-08-09 18:44:16)

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clu

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Registered: 2008-07-05

Posts: 40

Re: WPC11 v.3 wireless card plugin -- change default loaded module??

Bump!
Partially solved...

One of the problems is that ndiswrapper -l does not recognize the hardware when the device is in. Instead the result is just:

net8180 : driver installed

There should also be some message akin to 'hardware present.'

The only way I even got here was to modprobe orinoco_cs so that I could insert the card without the kernel panic. This is not the module I want because there will be no WPA support with it. My question now is:
1. Does anyone know why ndiswrapper would not be able to see the hardware? (And yes I've tried uninstalling/reinstalling the driver and rmmoding and modprobing ndiswrapper back in...)
2. Since this is not an ndiswrapper forum (yes I've tried...) is there a way to specify that this device should use the ndiswrapper module upon insertion? (Like in udev rules.d or something) And what is the *best* way of doing this?

Your thoughts....?

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