FATAL Error when modprobe ndiswrapper plz help!

when i type modprobe ndiswrapper i get FATAL: Error inserting ndiswrapper (/lib/modules/2.6.8-gentoo-r2/misc/ndiswrapper.ko: unknown symbol in module, or unkown parameter.

im using mn-730 and i followed these steps from http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...23#post1108023



locate ndiswrapper > ndisfiles.txt
open ndisfiles.txt open up with a text editor... delete everything related to ndis wrapper.. (except the setup files...) remove /etc/ndiswrapper directory as well. lets start from scratch. after it is all gone.. run updatedb again... then locate ndiswrapper > ndisfiles.txt double check everything.

now.. enter your ndiswrapper directory that you extracted... we will do the following...

make clean
make
make install
ndiswrapper -i /path/to/mn720.inf
ndiswrapper -l
ndiswrapper -m
modprobe ndiswrapper

dmesg

ndiswrapper: Unknown symbol wireless_send_event

A friend told me to try ndiswrapper .7 i did and modprobe worked but when i goto iwconfig it says no such command. anyone know whats up with that?

You have to download and install wireless-tools to be able to use iwconfig and the other tools used to configure and test wireless cards.

Hi guys... First of all I'm new to this linux thing and I'm having problems with my Linksys WUSB54G network adapter. I used ndiswrapper.12 and managed to install a driver from Linksys... however when i modprobe ndiswrapper I get the following message:

FATAL: Error inserting ndiswrapper (/lib/modules/2.6.9/misc/ndiswrapper.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)

Im using Gentoo, my kernel version is 2.6.9 and I've already enabled Wireless LAN drivers (non-hamradio) & Wireless Extensions... in dmesg I get the followin message:

Linux version 2.6.9 (root@tux) (gcc version 3.3.4 20040623 (Gentoo Linux 3.3.4-r1, ssp-3.3.2-2, pie-8.7.6)) #3 SMP Tue Dec 28 18:38:52 UTC 2004
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001fffc000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000001fffc000 - 000000001ffff000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 000000001ffff000 - 0000000020000000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
511MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 131068
DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
Normal zone: 126972 pages, LIFO batch:16
HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
DMI 2.3 present.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 ASUS ) @ 0x000f8c00
ACPI: RSDT (v001 ASUS P4B_LA 0x42302e31 MSFT 0x31313031) @ 0x1fffc000
ACPI: FADT (v001 ASUS P4B_LA 0x42302e31 MSFT 0x31313031) @ 0x1fffc100
ACPI: BOOT (v001 ASUS P4B_LA 0x42302e31 MSFT 0x31313031) @ 0x1fffc040
ACPI: MADT (v001 ASUS P4B_LA 0x42302e31 MSFT 0x31313031) @ 0x1fffc080
ACPI: DSDT (v001 ASUS P4B_LA 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000b) @ 0x00000000
ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
Processor #0 15:1 APIC version 20
ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x00] high edge lint[0x1])
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: root /dev/hda4 vga=778
Initializing CPU#0
CPU 0 irqstacks, hard=c04a5000 soft=c049d000
PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 11, 32768 bytes)
Detected 1993.560 MHz processor.
Using tsc for high-res timesource
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Memory: 514516k/524272k available (2470k kernel code, 9172k reserved, 1001k data, 200k init, 0k highmem)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay loop... 3932.16 BogoMIPS (lpj=1966080)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
CPU: After generic identify, caps: 3febfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 3febfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K
CPU: L2 cache: 256K
CPU: Hyper-Threading is disabled
CPU: After all inits, caps: 3febfbff 00000000 00000000 00000080
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU0: Intel P4/Xeon Extended MCE MSRs (12) available
CPU0: Thermal monitoring enabled
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
CPU0: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.00GHz stepping 02
per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 731.31 usecs.
task migration cache decay timeout: 1 msecs.
Total of 1 processors activated (3932.16 BogoMIPS).
Brought up 1 CPUs
NET: Registered protocol family 16
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf1060, last bus=2
PCI: Using configuration type 1
mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
SCSI subsystem initialized
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI: Enabled i801 SMBus device
PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0
PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX/ICH [8086/2440] at 0000:00:1f.0
PCI: IRQ 0 for device 0000:00:1f.3 doesn't match PIRQ mask - try pci=usepirqmask
PCI: IRQ 0 for device 0000:00:1f.5 doesn't match PIRQ mask - try pci=usepirqmask
PCI: IRQ 0 for device 0000:02:08.0 doesn't match PIRQ mask - try pci=usepirqmask
PCI: IRQ 0 for device 0000:02:09.0 doesn't match PIRQ mask - try pci=usepirqmask
PCI: IRQ 0 for device 0000:02:09.1 doesn't match PIRQ mask - try pci=usepirqmask
PCI: IRQ 0 for device 0000:02:09.2 doesn't match PIRQ mask - try pci=usepirqmask
PCI: IRQ 0 for device 0000:02:09.3 doesn't match PIRQ mask - try pci=usepirqmask
PCI: IRQ 0 for device 0000:02:09.4 doesn't match PIRQ mask - try pci=usepirqmask
PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 0000:02:09.4
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 0000:00:1f.4
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 0000:02:0b.0
PCI: IRQ 0 for device 0000:02:0a.0 doesn't match PIRQ mask - try pci=usepirqmask
Simple Boot Flag at 0x3a set to 0x1
Machine check exception polling timer started.
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
audit(1104868023.126:0): initialized
devfs: 2004-01-31 Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
devfs: boot_options: 0x1
Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir@monad.swb.de).
lp: driver loaded but no devices found
Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones
agpgart: Detected an Intel i845 Chipset.
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 439M
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xf8000000
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 8 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP(,...)]
parport0: irq 7 detected
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
Using anticipatory io scheduler
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ICH2: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:1f.1
ICH2: chipset revision 18
ICH2: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xb800-0xb807, BIOS settings: hdaMA, hdbio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xb808-0xb80f, BIOS settings: hdcMA, hddMA
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: Maxtor 6Y160P0, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdc: CDD4851 CD-R/RW, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: SAMSUNG DVD-ROM SD-616F, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
Probing IDE interface ide2...
ide2: Wait for ready failed before probe !
Probing IDE interface ide3...
ide3: Wait for ready failed before probe !
Probing IDE interface ide4...
ide4: Wait for ready failed before probe !
Probing IDE interface ide5...
ide5: Wait for ready failed before probe !
hda: max request size: 1024KiB
hda: 320173056 sectors (163928 MB) w/7936KiB Cache, CHS=19929/255/63, UDMA(100)
hda: cache flushes supported
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3 p4
hdc: ATAPI 32X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 4096kB Cache, DMA
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
hdd: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache, UDMA(33)
libata version 1.02 loaded.
ohci1394: $Rev: 1223 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
PCI: Enabling device 0000:02:09.4 (0014 -> 0016)
PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 0000:02:09.4
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 0000:00:1f.4
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 0000:02:0b.0
ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 1.1 (PCI): IRQ=[9] MMIO=[eb000000-eb0007ff] Max Packet=[2048]
PCI: Enabling device 0000:02:0b.0 (0014 -> 0016)
PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 0000:02:0b.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 0000:00:1f.4
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 0000:02:09.4
ohci1394: fw-host1: OHCI-1394 1.0 (PCI): IRQ=[9] MMIO=[ea000000-ea0007ff] Max Packet=[2048]
ieee1394: raw1394: /dev/raw1394 device initialized
PCI: Enabling device 0000:02:09.3 (0014 -> 0016)
PCI: IRQ 0 for device 0000:02:09.3 doesn't match PIRQ mask - try pci=usepirqmask
PCI: Assigned IRQ 5 for device 0000:02:09.3
ehci_hcd 0000:02:09.3: ALi Corporation USB 2.0 Controller
ehci_hcd 0000:02:09.3: irq 5, pci mem e0840000
ehci_hcd 0000:02:09.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
PCI: cache line size of 128 is not supported by device 0000:02:09.3
ehci_hcd 0000:02:09.3: USB 2.0 enabled, EHCI 1.00, driver 2004-May-10
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 6 ports detected
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.2
PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 0000:00:1f.2
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.2: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM USB (Hub #1)
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.2 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.2: irq 9, io base 0000b400
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 0000:00:1f.4
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 0000:02:09.4
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 0000:02:0b.0
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.4: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM USB (Hub #2)
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.4 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.4: irq 9, io base 0000b000
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.4: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
usbcore: registered new driver usblp
drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: v0.13: USB Printer Device Class driver
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0:USB HID core driver
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
usb 1-6: new high speed USB device using address 3
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.6 (Sun Aug 15 07:17:53 2004 UTC).
PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:1f.5 (0004 -> 0005)
PCI: IRQ 0 for device 0000:00:1f.5 doesn't match PIRQ mask - try pci=usepirqmask
PCI: Assigned IRQ 10 for device 0000:00:1f.5
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 0000:00:1f.3
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.5 to 64
usb 2-2: new full speed USB device using address 2
hub 2-2:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-2:1.0: 3 ports detected
intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 49848 usecs
intel8x0: clocking to 48000
ALSA device list:
#0: Intel 82801BA-ICH2 at 0xa800, irq 10
oprofile: using NMI interrupt.
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 32768)
ip_conntrack version 2.1 (4095 buckets, 32760 max) - 304 bytes per conntrack
usb 2-2.1: new full speed USB device using address 3
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
input: USB HID v1.00 Keyboard [HP Multimedia Keyboard Hub] on usb-0000:00:1f.2-2.1
input: USB HID v1.00 Device [HP Multimedia Keyboard Hub] on usb-0000:00:1f.2-2.1
ipt_recent v0.3.1: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>. http://snowman.net/projects/ipt_recent/
arp_tables: (C) 2002 David S. Miller
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
Mounted devfs on /dev
Freeing unused kernel memory: 200k freed
usb 2-2.3: new low speed USB device using address 4
ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[1-00:1023] GUID[0020e50000056cf4]
input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Logitech Optical USB Mouse] on usb-0000:00:1f.2-2.3
ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[0090e625000000a2]
Adding 1004052k swap on /dev/hda3. Priority:-1 extents:1
EXT3 FS on hda4, internal journal
e100: Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Driver, 3.0.27-k2-NAPI
e100: Copyright(c) 1999-2004 Intel Corporation
PCI: Enabling device 0000:02:08.0 (0014 -> 0017)
PCI: IRQ 0 for device 0000:02:08.0 doesn't match PIRQ mask - try pci=usepirqmask
PCI: Assigned IRQ 5 for device 0000:02:08.0
e100: eth0: e100_probe: addr 0xed800000, irq 5, MAC addr 00:E0:18:44:4A:64
e100: eth0: e100_watchdog: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex
e100: eth0: e100_watchdog: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex
drivers/usb/input/hid-input.c: event field not found
drivers/usb/input/hid-input.c: event field not found
ndiswrapper: Unknown symbol wireless_send_event
ndiswrapper: Unknown symbol wireless_send_event
ndiswrapper: Unknown symbol wireless_send_event
ndiswrapper: Unknown symbol wireless_send_event
ndiswrapper: Unknown symbol wireless_send_event
ndiswrapper: Unknown symbol wireless_send_event
ndiswrapper: Unknown symbol wireless_send_event
ndiswrapper: Unknown symbol wireless_send_event
ndiswrapper: Unknown symbol wireless_send_event
ndiswrapper: Unknown symbol wireless_send_event
ndiswrapper: Unknown symbol wireless_send_event
ndiswrapper: Unknown symbol wireless_send_event
ndiswrapper: Unknown symbol wireless_send_event


Any ideas???????

For both sendas4 and frandres, it appears that CONFIG_NET_RADIO is not enabled for the kernel you are running. To be sure that it is see if /proc/config.gz exists (if it doesn't, recompile your kernel with CONFIG_IKCONFIG and CONFIG_IKCONFIG_PROC set to "y" in your .config file), and run this:

zgrep CONFIG_NET_RADIO /proc/config.gz

which will show what it is.

For frandres, if it actually is set, perhaps all those warnings in dmesg about shared IRQ's failing should be taken serious! I don't really know what all that means, but something obviously is not working right on that motherboard. If you are using lilo as a boot manager you can test it by manually selecting which kernel to boot and after the kernel name put the
"pci=usepirqmask" statement. If that gets rid of the error messages in dmesg, go to /etc/lilo.conf and add a line

append "pci=usepirqmask"

above the image sections. You might also try "noacpi pci=noacpi,usepirqmask" and see what that gets you. I don't know that it should make any difference, but you might try compiling with SMP turned off too, since you don't have multiple
cpu's.

Hi I am having the exact same problem as the others with my netgear WG111....the only error in dmesg is
ndiswrapper: Unknown symbol wireless_send_event
Interestingly I've configured my kernel .config to CONFIG_NET_RADIO=y but when I do
zgrep CONFIG_NET_RADIO /proc/config.gz
I get
# CONFIG_NET_RADIO is not set
Can you tell me what's going on? Thanks, James

Originally Posted by jimmydu3 Hi I am having the exact same problem as the others with my netgear WG111....the only error in dmesg is ndiswrapper: Unknown symbol wireless_send_event Interestingly I've configured my kernel .config to CONFIG_NET_RADIO=y but when I do zgrep CONFIG_NET_RADIO /proc/config.gz I get # CONFIG_NET_RADIO is not set Can you tell me what's going on? Thanks, James

I got exactly the same error as you. I have the latest version of the kernel, Kernel 2.6.16.11 and still have this bug. I've compiled the 2.6 Kernel with CONFIG_NET_RADIO=y and get # CONFIG_NET_RADIO is not set when I was doing zgrep CONFIG_NET_RADIO /proc/config.gz.

Here is the workaround for this issue:
For the ndiswrapper module, we need to specify CONFIG_NET_RADIO to be set to Yes. But the kernel do not include this option if no card is selected in the list... so just include one card in the list as Module and the Kernel will be compiled with CONFIG_NET_RADIO=y...

So now recompile your kernel, reboot with it and be sure to reinstall ndiswrapper:

cd ndiswrapper-<your version>
make uninstall
make clean
make
make install

Now you are good to go! Hope this will help some1.