"modprobe ndiswrapper" results in dmesg error, Belkin F5D8010 PCMCIA

br3nn4n · 03-24-2008, 06:31 AM

Hey everyone, I'm pretty new to Linux truly but I'm a quick learner, and I'm trying once again to get my Belkin f5d8010 PCMCIA card to work, using ndiswrapper.

Here's the weird thing: it worked before, I actually sat in McDonalds and browsed the net and it was fast...very fast. I'm using a pretty old Compaq Presario 1245 laptop (333 mhz processor, 32mb ram) but it runs damnsmalllinux v4.2.5 just fine.

Anyway, after doing the ndiswrapper -i netani.inf it installs the driver and then ndiswrapper -l says it's both installed and the hardware is there.

The problem: modprobe ndiswrapper only results in an error. Here's from dmesg:

Quote:

dsl@box:~$ dmesg
[.....]
<6>ndiswrapper version 1.14 loaded (preempt=no,smp=yes)
<6>ndiswrapper: driver netani (Airgo Networks, Inc.,06/30/2005, 1.5.0.147) loaded
<6>ndiswrapper: using irq 11
<1>Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address c2b6d000
<4> printing eip:
<4>c2b820a0
<1>*pde = 010d8067
<1>*pte = 00000000
<4>Oops: 0000
<4>CPU: 0
<4>EIP: 0010:[<c2b820a0>] Not tainted
<4>EFLAGS: 00010202
<4>eax: 3830a93b ebx: ffffffff ecx: c2b6b000 edx: 026eed39
<4>esi: c2b6d000 edi: 00000000 ebp: ffffffff esp: c059dbf8
<4>ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
<4>Process loadndisdriver (pid: 561, stackpage=c059d000)
<4>Stack: c1230478 c1230000 c0010007 00000001 00000000 00000000 c2b6b000 01000016
<4> c059dc28 0000191a 000c000b c123023a 006e0077 00360069 00300030 002e0030
<4> 00690062 0000006e 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
<4>Call Trace: [<c2b3447d>] [<c2b367ff>] [<c2b2fb91>] [<c2b3182f>] [<c2b2f9e6>]
<4> [<c2b366a5>] [<c2b2f9e6>] [<c2b31ea1>] [<c2b3223d>] [<c2b44b00>] [<c01f25c1>]
<4> [<c2b44b00>] [<c2b32340>] [<c01f2624>] [<c2b44b00>] [<c2b44b28>] [<c2b1ff4a>]
<4> [<c2b44b00>] [<c012b954>] [<c2b201c6>] [<c01698fa>] [<c014d472>] [<c0151b49>]
<4> [<c013ee9c>] [<c014d378>] [<c0108997>]
<4>
<4>Code: 0f b7 3e 03 d7 83 c6 02 48 75 f5 8b c2 81 e2 ff ff 00 00 c1
<4> dsl@box:~$

I'm thinking MAYBE it's an irq problem, but I'm not sure what to do about it if it is.

ANY help is greatly appreciated at this point

serafean · 03-24-2008, 09:23 AM

Hi, may I suggest you try out a new version of ndiswrapper (we're up to 1.52 now), or is there any reason you want to keep an old one? Try hotplugging (if it is possible) the network card, see if it makes a difference.

Other than that, I have no idea what to do with it...

Serafean

br3nn4n · 03-24-2008, 12:18 PM

Okay so you're suggesting I upgrade ndiswrapper? Just to make sure, you do have to have a compiler to do that, yes? Such as gcc?

I'm still learning Linux so some of the obvious stuff is not yet so obvious

serafean · 03-24-2008, 01:12 PM

Quote:

Okay so you're suggesting I upgrade ndiswrapper?

Exactly.

Quote:

you do have to have a compiler to do that

Not necessarily : check your package manager if there is a newer version available, or just find a precompiled .deb on the net for DSL; otherwise you do need gcc (compiler), make, and linux kernel headers (just look in your package manager, you should be able to find these in there, maybe something like 'build-essentials').

Serafean

br3nn4n · 03-24-2008, 11:59 PM

Okay i'll try that when I get a moment tonight. I actually turned on my laptop today with the card slid out and plugged it in once it was booted, did modprobe ndiswrapper and it worked!

Trying to see the logic here, could it be that v. 1.14 is just not stable? Thank you so much, by the way.

floppy_stuttgart · 11-19-2010, 12:17 PM

@serafean

your post seems to have been efficient!

"
Not necessarily : check your package manager if there is a newer version available, or just find a precompiled .deb on the net for DSL; otherwise you do need gcc (compiler), make, and linux kernel headers (just look in your package manager, you should be able to find these in there, maybe something like 'build-essentials')."

But I am a newcomer.
Could you be a bit more precise how to realize all linux commands?

See explanation in my blog: I have to upgrade ndiswrapoper in Damnsmalllinux...

Thanks a lot.

Pascal