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Old 05-31-2006, 08:56 AM   #1
Carry
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wlan TEW-421PC pcbuscard - ndiswrapper - Driver wont initialize the device


Hi there.
I'm having this problem with getting my wireless lan card working on linux SUSE 10.1.

I'm using ndiswrapper 1.16 with Linux SUSe 10.1 (kernel smp)
I uninstalled the previous ndiswrapper and installed the newest.

This is what I did:

*Downloaded TNET TEW-421PC BusCard (Texas Instr) drivers from ndiswrapper card list page. Extracted to /lib/windrivers/

*Did "ndiswrapper -l" to see if there were any previous drivers installed - No there weren't. So i did "ndiswrapper -i /lib/windrivers/TNET1130.INF" and i received:
Code:
Installing tnet1130
Forcing parameter PrivacyMode|0 to PrivacyMode|2
Forcing parameter PrivacyMode|0 to PrivacyMode|2
Forcing parameter PrivacyMode|0 to PrivacyMode|2
Forcing parameter PrivacyMode|0 to PrivacyMode|2
Forcing parameter PrivacyMode|0 to PrivacyMode|2
Forcing parameter PrivacyMode|0 to PrivacyMode|2
Forcing parameter PrivacyMode|0 to PrivacyMode|2
So I did "ndiswrapper -l" and recieved a message, that tnet1130 was installed and hardware present. I had my TNET wlan card in Socket1 with no green lights glowing. THe green light glowed in Ubuntu and Winxp (showing that it had connected or smth. with the system).

*So i did modprobe ndiswrapper, and recieved nothing. ndiswrapper was in lsmod.

SO - at that point, i should have recieved POSITIVE response from iwconfig, showing, that my CARD was working, but I DID not recieve any.

So i ejected my card, did "tail -f /var/log/messages" and inserted it again. RECIEVED:

Code:
May 31 15:49:01 linux-suse kernel: ndiswrapper (NdisMAllocateSharedMemory:916): couldn't allocate 409600 bytes of un-cached DMA memory
May 31 15:49:01 linux-suse kernel: ndiswrapper (miniport_init:279): couldn't initialize device: C0000001
May 31 15:49:01 linux-suse kernel: ndiswrapper (pnp_start_device:436): Windows driver couldn't initialize the device (C0000001)
May 31 15:49:01 linux-suse kernel: ndiswrapper (miniport_halt:308): device c66e1380 is not initialized - not halting
May 31 15:49:01 linux-suse kernel: ndiswrapper: device eth%d removed
May 31 15:49:01 linux-suse kernel: unregister_netdevice: device eth%d/c66e1000 never was registered
May 31 15:49:01 linux-suse kernel: ndiswrapper: probe of 0000:06:00.0 failed with error -22
BTW - i actually did "cp /lib/windrivers/FwRad16.bin /lib/firmware/tiacx111c16" So that there would be a firmware for the card (it said smth about NO FIRMWARE before).

So anyone... who has dealt with this card and this kind of problem - please help me. I'm very new to linux, and trying to solve this problem.

Carry K.
 
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