USB Belkin wireless adapter problem

Sliver85 · 11-30-2006, 04:48 PM

Okay, so I installed ndiswrapper, the driver and ndiswrapper -l returns:

Code:

rt2500usb  driver installed, hardware present

Then I ran ndiswrapper -m. All good there. So then after editing my interfaces file, I tried to run "ifup wlan0" This didn't work. Here is the relevant part of my syslog:

Code:

Nov 30 16:33:33 sliver-desktop kernel: [  443.170588] ndiswrapper version 1.22 loaded (preempt=no,smp=yes)
Nov 30 16:33:33 sliver-desktop kernel: [  443.228232] usb 4-4: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4
Nov 30 16:33:34 sliver-desktop kernel: [  443.300918] ndiswrapper (load_pe_images:573): fixing KI_USER_SHARED_DATA address in the driver
Nov 30 16:33:34 sliver-desktop kernel: [  443.301497] ndiswrapper: driver rt2500usb (Ralink,07/12/2005, 2.00.03.0000) loaded
Nov 30 16:33:34 sliver-desktop kernel: [  443.301950] ndiswrapper (wrap_submit_irp:1194): ioctl 64799828 NOT IMPLEMENTED
Nov 30 16:33:34 sliver-desktop kernel: [  443.301988] ndiswrapper (miniport_init:264): couldn't initialize device: C0010006
Nov 30 16:33:34 sliver-desktop kernel: [  443.301993] ndiswrapper (pnp_start_device:428): Windows driver couldn't initialize the device (C0000001)
Nov 30 16:33:34 sliver-desktop kernel: [  443.302003] ndiswrapper (miniport_halt:327): device ffff8100745c2500 is not initialized - not halting
Nov 30 16:33:34 sliver-desktop kernel: [  443.302007] ndiswrapper: device eth%%d removed
Nov 30 16:33:34 sliver-desktop kernel: [  443.302013] unregister_netdevice: device eth%%d/ffff8100745c2000 never was registered
Nov 30 16:33:34 sliver-desktop kernel: [  443.302020] ndiswrapper: probe of 4-4:1.0 failed with error -22
Nov 30 16:33:34 sliver-desktop kernel: [  443.302028] usbcore: registered new driver ndiswrapper
Nov 30 16:33:34 sliver-desktop dhclient: There is already a pid file /var/run/dhclient.wlan0.pid with pid 5798864
Nov 30 16:33:34 sliver-desktop dhclient: Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.4
Nov 30 16:33:34 sliver-desktop dhclient: Copyright 2004-2006 Internet Systems Consortium.
Nov 30 16:33:34 sliver-desktop dhclient: All rights reserved.
Nov 30 16:33:34 sliver-desktop dhclient: For info, please visit 
Nov 30 16:33:34 sliver-desktop dhclient: 
Nov 30 16:33:35 sliver-desktop dhclient: Bind socket to interface: No such device

So of course, my wireless card does not show up in the network window. So any ideas on how to get this to work?

dombrowsky · 12-29-2006, 04:55 AM

looks like the driver is broken.

yep... that's it.

make sure you've got all the problems on your end taken care of (right kernel source, right build system, etc.), and then talk to the people who wrote the driver.

Welcome to Open Source.

Hangdog42 · 12-29-2006, 07:54 AM

Actually, for that chipset, I would go with the native linux driver rather than mucking about with ndiswrapper. The RALink people actually take Linux seriously, so the drivers are decent.

If you do want to stick with ndiswrapper, make sure that you're using the latest version and that the Windows driver you're using is the one suggested on their wiki.