ndiswrapper help! [SOLVED]

lmsguerr · 2009-08-29 12:47:07

Because of the unstable rt61pci module (i lose my connection sometimes), i tried to install the wireless card with ndiswrapper.
I follow the wiki:
- put ndiswrapper on the modules section of the rc.conf file and blacklist the rt61pci with !
- did ndiswrapper -i driver.inf
- ndiswrapper -l shows the driver installed
- ndiswrapper -m
- depmod -a

my dmesg shows:

ndiswrapper version 1.54 loaded (smp=yes, preempt=yes)
usbcore: registered new interface driver ndiswrapper

but i can't get a recognize device on ifconfig

What am i missing?! Thanks in advance

Last edited by lmsguerr (2009-09-02 19:36:14)

djszapi · 2009-08-29 14:52:48

Hello lmsguerr!

Can you add that manually with ifconfig wlanx/athx up ? Can you see it in the output of iwconfig ?

lmsguerr · 2009-08-29 14:57:19

No i can't!

it tell's: wlan0: unknown interface: No such device

djszapi · 2009-08-30 00:45:21

Hello lmsguerr!

What's the output of lsusb, if you use usb card ? What's the output of iwconfig ?

lmsguerr · 2009-08-30 04:16:51

It's a pci card... and iwconfig doesn't show any wireless device only the wired devices. I'm starting to guess that ndiswrapper doesn't support my card.
It would help removing the driver package?! (i think that is the only thing i didn't did)

droog · 2009-08-30 04:39:08

did you modprobe ndiswrapper?

lmsguerr · 2009-09-01 16:37:21

Yes! ndiswrapper is mobprobe... i give up, probably ndiswrapper doesn't support my pci card. I don't see any oh ralink pci card on the ndiswrapper working list.

Thanks for your try

kjon · 2009-09-01 17:02:41

nah nah nah...
let's see. I got the same card as you and the performance of it started sucking from 2.6.28 but I managed to make it work with ndiswrapper (again, it works!)

Let's start from the beggining (by removing all related drivers from ndiswrapper database -- check -r option)

1. blacklist rt61pci and add ndiswrapper to your rc.conf

2.

modprobe -rvf rt61pci
ndiswrapper -i rt61.inf
modprobe -v ndiswrapper

3. done.
3.1 If the card start getting stupid, use

iwpriv wlan0 ndis_reset

to reset it.
3.2. Dunno why, but dhcpcd takes longer than usual to get the ip from the network. (Driver issue?)

Last edited by kjon (2009-09-01 17:03:16)

lmsguerr · 2009-09-01 20:09:01

I remember one thing i'm using a x64 arch version. Thus the driver need to be x64? or lib32 could wraparound?

kjon · 2009-09-01 20:59:36

x64 system requires a 64 bit driver AFAIK

lmsguerr · 2009-09-01 21:40:57

I've downloaded a x64 driver but i get errors in dmesg:

ndiswrapper version 1.55 loaded (smp=yes, preempt=yes)
ndiswrapper (import:242): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisMIndicateReceiveNetBufferLists'
ndiswrapper (import:242): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisMFreeNetBufferSGList'
ndiswrapper (import:242): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisMSetBusData'
ndiswrapper (import:242): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisCopySendNetBufferListInfo'
ndiswrapper (import:242): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisAllocateMemoryWithTagPriority'
ndiswrapper (import:242): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisMAllocateNetBufferSGList'
ndiswrapper (import:242): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisMSendNetBufferListsComplete'
ndiswrapper (import:242): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisMSynchronizeWithInterruptEx'
ndiswrapper (import:242): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisMRegisterInterruptEx'
ndiswrapper (import:242): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisMRegisterMiniportDriver'
ndiswrapper (import:242): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisMResetComplete'
ndiswrapper (import:242): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisMSetMiniportAttributes'
ndiswrapper (import:242): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisMDeregisterInterruptEx'
ndiswrapper (import:242): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisMDeregisterMiniportDriver'
ndiswrapper (import:242): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisOpenConfigurationEx'
ndiswrapper (import:242): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisMIndicateStatusEx'
ndiswrapper (import:242): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisAllocateNetBuffer'
ndiswrapper (import:242): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisMDeregisterScatterGatherDma'
ndiswrapper (import:242): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisAllocateNetBufferAndNetBufferList'
ndiswrapper (import:242): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisAllocateNetBufferPool'
ndiswrapper (import:242): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisMGetBusData'
ndiswrapper (import:242): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisMRegisterScatterGatherDma'
ndiswrapper (import:242): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisFreeNetBuffer'
ndiswrapper (import:242): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisFreeNetBufferList'
ndiswrapper (import:242): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisAllocateMdl'
ndiswrapper (import:242): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisFreeNetBufferListPool'
ndiswrapper (import:242): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisAllocateNetBufferListPool'
ndiswrapper (import:242): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisFreeNetBufferPool'
ndiswrapper (import:242): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisFreeMdl'
ndiswrapper (load_sys_files:206): couldn't prepare driver 'netr6164'
ndiswrapper (load_wrap_driver:108): couldn't load driver netr6164; check system log for messages from 'loadndisdriver'
usbcore: registered new interface driver ndiswrapper
usbcore: deregistering interface driver ndiswrapper
ndiswrapper (ntoskernel_exit:2677): object ffff8800397ca030(2) was not freed, freeing it now

kjon, could you mail me your driver?! (lmsguerr@netcabo.pt)

Last edited by lmsguerr (2009-09-01 21:41:27)

kjon · 2009-09-02 18:22:12

okay, I will. But my driver is for 32 bits only.

lmsguerr · 2009-09-02 19:34:50

Finally... thank you for your help!!!! my problem was that i wasn't using the correct driver. After exhaustive search and a little more attention on what specific driver to locate and i got it... if weren't you all i'd give up a long time ago.
A special thanks to kjon for giving me is driver that pinpoint the exact driver x64 to find, cause as probably know, ndiswrapper on arch x64 only accepts x64 driver (only newbies like me dream on for the other).

In resume, my only problem with ndiswrapper was of using the wrong driver. If anyone needs the x64 driver let me know. (lmsguerr@netcabo.pt)

Thanks, this post is solved

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