ndiswrapper doesn't work for US Robotics USR 5410 and Linksys WPC 54G
 

I have a US Robotics 5410 Cardbus card. I have installed ndiswrapper .11. I have a PCI to PCMCIA extender using yenta socket. When I do lsmod it shows ndiswrapper when I do ndiswrapper -l it gives
[root@localhost ~]# ndiswrapper -l
Installed ndis drivers:
lsbcmnds driver present
lstinds driver present
usr11g driver present

When I do lsmod it shows

[root@localhost ~]# lsmod
Module Size Used by
ndiswrapper 100936 0
tun 12737 0
md5 8001 1
ipv6 235233 21
autofs4 21701 0
i2c_dev 13249 0
i2c_core 25921 1 i2c_dev
sunrpc 136997 1
dm_mod 56773 0
button 10449 0
battery 12485 0
ac 8773 0
yenta_socket 22721 1
pcmcia_core 66681 1 yenta_socket
uhci_hcd 32729 0
ehci_hcd 31941 0
tg3 79045 0
floppy 57297 0
ext3 117961 3
jbd 59353 1 ext3
ata_piix 12357 4
libata 44101 1 ata_piix
sd_mod 20289 5
scsi_mod 112009 2 libata,sd_mod
.
When I insert the card nothing happens . now light
not shown in ifconfig or iwconfig.
Please help..
I also have Linksys WPC54G version2 card. It also doesn't work. Same problems.
I am using Fedora Core 3
[root@localhost ~]# uname -r
2.6.9-1.681_FC3smp

Please help

Hi dangolrk,

You need to have the card inserted before you configure and make ndiswrapper, not after. You state that after running ndiswrapper -l the drivers are present. Is it saying "hardware present" as well? If not then its a hardware problem ie. If you have hotplugging installed then Fedora will show the card in your hardware list. If its there then you need to run through a ndiswrapper uninstall procedure and then run through the whole install procedure again, making sureyour hardware is installed.
Hope this helps
Regards
Chris

didn't work
 

Thanks for the reply.
I went throug the whole process with the card inserted and it didn't work. how to check if the hotplug is installed in my machine ?
can it be that the driver I am using is different? I got the wireless card from Fry's and go the driver from the Linuxant website. The output is
[root@localhost usrobotics_linux]# ndiswrapper -l
Installed ndis drivers:
usr11g driver present

Okay, it isnt detecting your hardware, although your driver is being installed correctly. I see the driver you got for it from linuxant - that looks fine. I haven't any experience with fedora so you will need to research that elsewhere to ensure hotplugging is installed. Can you post back an output for the command
as well?
Regards
Chris

I am having the same problem with my linksys card but when I type ndiswrapper -l i get driver present hardware present the thing with me is when I type modprobe ndiswrapper my computer frezees and i get nothing

[root@ ~]# ndiswrapper -l
Installed ndis drivers:
lstinds driver present, hardware present

[root@ ~]# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc AGP Bridge [IGP 320M] (rev 13)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc PCI Bridge [IGP 320M] (rev 01)
00:02.0 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03)
00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: ALi Corporation M5451 PCI AC-Link Controller Audio Device (rev 02)
00:07.0 ISA bridge: ALi Corporation M1533 PCI to ISA Bridge [Aladdin IV]
00:08.0 Modem: ALi Corporation M5457 AC'97 Modem Controller
00:0a.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ6912 Cardbus Controller
00:10.0 IDE interface: ALi Corporation M5229 IDE (rev c4)
00:11.0 Bridge: ALi Corporation M7101 Power Management Controller [PMU]
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: National Semiconductor Corporation DP83815 (MacPhyter) Ethernet Controller
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility U1
02:00.0 Network controller: Texas Instruments ACX 111 54Mbps Wireless Interface

if someone could help me out it would be appreciated thanks in advance!!!

[root@localhost ~]# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. E7220/E7221 Memory Controller Hub (rev 04)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. E7220/E7221 PCI Express Root Port (rev 04)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corp. E7221 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 04)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 PCI Bridge (rev d3)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FR (ICH6/ICH6R) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) IDE Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801FR/FRW (ICH6R/ICH6RW) SATA Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5751 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 01)
04:00.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1410 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 01)
[root@localhost ~]#

[root@localhost ~]# lspci -n
00:00.0 Class 0600: 8086:2588 (rev 04)
00:01.0 Class 0604: 8086:2589 (rev 04)
00:02.0 Class 0300: 8086:258a (rev 04)
00:1c.0 Class 0604: 8086:2660 (rev 03)
00:1c.1 Class 0604: 8086:2662 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 Class 0c03: 8086:2658 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 Class 0c03: 8086:2659 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 Class 0c03: 8086:265a (rev 03)
00:1d.3 Class 0c03: 8086:265b (rev 03)
00:1d.7 Class 0c03: 8086:265c (rev 03)
00:1e.0 Class 0604: 8086:244e (rev d3)
00:1f.0 Class 0601: 8086:2640 (rev 03)
00:1f.1 Class 0101: 8086:266f (rev 03)
00:1f.2 Class 0101: 8086:2652 (rev 03)
00:1f.3 Class 0c05: 8086:266a (rev 03)
02:00.0 Class 0200: 14e4:1677 (rev 01)
04:00.0 Class 0607: 104c:ac50 (rev 01)

[root@localhost ~]# cardctl status
Socket 0:
3.3V CardBus card
function 0: [ready]
[root@localhost ~]#

does cardbus devices work in
CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1410 PC card Cardbus Controller ?
PCMCIA devices seems to work for orinoco_cs driver.
Thanks

Linksys WPC54G ver 2 Running
 

after installing the new kernal and then reinstalling ndiswrapper and my inf file i got my wireless card to power up... It no longer frezees my computer when i type ndiswrapper... Now i just have to get my card to connect to my router and give me my internet access. So I can be like that lil guy with the wireless laptop from the best buy commercial and start singing " IM FREE IM FREE" LOL thanks to all for your help...

this thread is done, but in case someone got here due to gone15's post about Fedora freezing after invoking `modprobe ndiswrapper`, i thought i'd note that this is the normal situation for Fedora users with the 2.6 kernel. see ndiswrapper page on 4K stack size and kernel crashing on Fedora:
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/p...dex.php/Fedora