Hi

Apparently smc2835w made in china isn`t supportet by the prism54 driver. So I tryed with ndiswrapper. It installs well and $ndiswrapper -l shows:
Installed ndis drivers:
smc2835w driver present, hardware present

But when I modprobe ndiswrapper dmesg says:
ndiswrapper (KeGetCurrentThread:1661): couldn't find thread for task cfa8e020
ndiswrapper version 1.4rc3 loaded (preempt=no,smp=no)
ndiswrapper: driver smc2835w (SMC,12/14/2004, 3.3.12.1) loaded
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:03:00.0[A] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
ndiswrapper: using irq 10
ndiswrapper (setup_device:1662): couldn't get mac address: C0010011
ndiswrapper (ndiswrapper_add_pci_device:227): couldn't setup network device
ndiswrapper: probe of 0000:03:00.0 failed with error -22

Anyone got any clue?

Thnx..

My guess is that it is some incompatibility between ndiswrapper and the windows driver. If there are other Windows drivers available (like for Win2000 rather than XP) it might be worth a go. A version of that card is listed in the ndiswrapper wiki. I'd try the driver they point to. If that doesn't work, try dropping back a version or two of ndiswrapper. I'm not a big fan of the rc versions, so I'd suggest starting with 1.2.

Thank you.

It was the driver that was suggested on the list I used. However I went back to 1.1 and it works like a charm.
I heard many people suggest the same thing. It`s wierd that there are so many bugs in the latest versions.

I've seen this a bunch of times with ndiswrapper. They seem to put out rc versions that aren't really up to snuff, then a stable version comes along that is fine. Personally, I wish they would make a stronger distinction between the rc versions and the stable versions. As is, they keep pushing the rc versions as if they were stable.