I'm having trouble with ndiswrapper and the linksys wmp54g (Ralink RT2500). I've used the driver from the linksys website, but it was 32 bit and didn't work. Then I tried the 64 bit drivers from Ralink. None of them work.

I'm running dual amd64 chips under kubuntu with kernel 2.6.


ndiswrapper -l shows that the driver is installed and the hardware is present.


I've tried the newest ndiswrapper release and the newest ndiswrapper snapshot.





The output of dmesg includes the following:


ndiswrapper version 1.2 loaded (preempt=no,smp=yes)
general protection fault: 0000 [1] SMP
CPU 1
Modules linked in: ndiswrapper nvidia proc_intf freq_table cpufreq_userspace cpufreq_ondemand cpufreq_powersave video sony_acpi pcc_acpi button battery container ac ipv6 usblp usbhid snd_via82xx snd_ac97_codec snd_pcm snd_timer snd_page_alloc gameport snd_mpu401_uart snd_rawmidi snd_seq_device snd soundcore i2c_viapro i2c_core ehci_hcd uhci_hcd via82cxxx tg3 parport_pc evdev md tsdev dm_mod capability commoncap rtc psmouse mousedev lp parport ide_generic ide_disk ide_cd ide_core cdrom ext3 jbd mbcache sd_mod sata_via libata scsi_mod unix thermal processor fan fbcon font bitblit vesafb cfbcopyarea cfbimgblt cfbfillrect
Pid: 6956, comm: loadndisdriver Tainted: P 2.6.10-5-amd64-k8-smp
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8011ddc4>] <ffffffff8011ddc4>{do_page_fault+1380}
RSP: 0018:00000100159dbd18 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 0000e7ec00000000 RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: 000ffffffffff000
RDX: 0000e7ec00000000 RSI: 0000010000000000 RDI: ffffffff803d23a0
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: ffffff000234ff18 R09: 00002b992ddfa232
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000100 R12: 00000100159dbe18
R13: 00000000ffffffe7 R14: fffff78000000320 R15: 000001001e9a5240
FS: 0000002a9556c250(0000) GS:ffffffff8040e480(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
CR2: fffff78000000320 CR3: 000000000187a000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
Process loadndisdriver (pid: 6956, threadinfo 00000100159da000, task 000001001e0b3860)
Stack: 0000000000000000 0000000000000216 0000000000000216 000001001e0b3860
00000100159dbe18 ffffffff802e669c 0000000000000000 0000000b0000000e
00000100014b4ae0 0000010000030001
Call Trace:<ffffffff80172a83>{alloc_page_interleave+67} <ffffffff8015faa9>{cache_grow+313}
<ffffffff8010dd2d>{error_exit+0} <ffffffffa06e7e69>{:ndiswrapper:start_driver+153}
<ffffffffa06e8251>{:ndiswrapper:load_ndis_driver+401}
<ffffffffa06e884c>{:ndiswrapper:wrapper_ioctl+124}
<ffffffff8018bd0d>{sys_ioctl+509} <ffffffff8010d32a>{system_call+126}


Code: 48 8b 14 06 f6 c2 01 0f 84 b7 fc ff ff 4c 89 f0 48 21 ca 48
RIP <ffffffff8011ddc4>{do_page_fault+1380} RSP <00000100159dbd18>
<3>ndiswrapper (ndiswrapper_load_driver:93): loadndiswrapper failed (11); check system log for messages from 'loadndisdriver'



I'm not sure what this all means... does anyone have ideas?

Is your card listed as supported on the ndiswrapper website?

Check that page:

http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/m...index.php/List

and see if your card is supported by ndiswrapper.

The card is listed as supported, but no mention is made of 64 bit / 32 bit, and I would hate to have to assume that the 64 bit won't work without more input.

It might. You would need to look for a Windows XP x64 driver. I'm not sure if ndiswrapper supports x64 Windows drivers yet though.

Hey all, just wanted to let you know that I was able to get teh wmp54g working in Debian Sarge using the drivers from ralinktech dot coms website. The forum won't let me post links yet, sorry. It took me a bit longer than the ndiswrapper option, but mainly because I didnt' have a kernel source to compile against. I had to recompile my kernel. Maybe we can get these submitted to the kernel team for inclusion with the default compile. Thanks. If you have questions, email me at shaun yakk therabbithole dock 0rg

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