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ndiswrapper Question

I've been using ndiswrapper since ver 0.6 without any problems. I stopped looking and updating ndiswrapper versions at 0.8 just for the fact that I kept forgetting.

Well, my HDD crashed on me and had to replace it. I got my XP loaded on it just fine and then FINALLY got my laptop dual booted to FC3 last night. First thing I did was go out and get the latest ndiswrapper from sourceforge. The compile and install went flawlessly, but when I went to put in my WEP key

Code:

iwconfig wlan0 key restricted XXXXXXXXX

it always came back with a segment fault and locked my session. I couldn't even kill the iwconfig command. Fought with this for a couple days then went back to ver 0.8 which worked like it's suppose to.

I guess my question is, has anyone else had this problem? If so, what was the resolution.

efanning

I must say that I have had far more problems with ndiswrapper and Fedora Core 3 than with any of the other distributions I have tried including Suse, Mandrake and Ubuntu. Several of the kernels for FC3 dont work with v0.12 - I am currently on the latest but one version as the most recent will not make install - however version 1.0 was released a couple of days ago. You may find some stability in this product. For many people its simply a case of running through the different versions until you find one that works. People seem to have the most success with 0.8 and 0.11.
Regards
Chris

Thanks Chris. That's what I'm running right now is ver 0.8. That seems to be the most stable for me. Do you know of any support from the ndiswrapper project? I have not found any so far.

Eric

If you mean paid support then I'm happy to help for the right amount :D
Other than that there is this forum, the wiki on this site (see my sig), the official ndiswrapper wiki (see ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net) as well as the irc chat room - also on the sourceforge site I believe.
Regards
Chris

Ha Ha Ha!! I'd love to pay you Chris if I actually had any money!!

Eric

Ok, I'm having a brain dead moment. I created the file ifcfg-wlan0 and it states that it can't find wlan0 in modprobe.conf. What did I do wrong. I've done this before and got it working without any problems, I can't believe that I'm having such a problem with it this time.

Here's a copy of my modprobe

Code:

alias eth0 natsemi

alias snd-card-0 snd-ali5451

options snd-card-0 index=0

install snd-ali5451 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-ali5451 && /usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || :

remove snd-ali5451 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-ali5451

alias usb-controller ohci-hcd

alias ieee1394-controller ohci1394

alias wlan0 ndiswrapper

And here's a copy of my ifcfg-wlan0

Code:

DEVICE=wlan0

BOOTPROTO=dhcp

ESSID=BoboWireless

KEY=****MY KEY****

ONBOOT=yes

TYPE=Ethernet

Thanks for helping the brain dead.

Eric

Hehe,
Hey we all have them dude! No worries. I'll post my files for you to have a look at. Modprobe.conf is as follows:

Code:

alias scsi_hostadapter sata_via

alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1

options snd-card-0 index=0  

install snd-emu10k1 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-emu10k1 && /usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || :

remove snd-emu10k1 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-emu10k1

alias usb-controller ehci-hcd

alias usb-controller1 uhci-hcd

options ndiswrapper if_name=eth1  

alias eth1 ndiswrapper

alias char-major-195* nvidia

My wireless cfg file is therefore ifcfg-eth1 so that FC3 GUI utilities will recognise it (they dont see wlanX interfaces):

Code:

# Please read /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt

# for the documentation of these parameters.

IPV6INIT=no

ONBOOT=yes

USERCTL=yes

PEERDNS=yes

GATEWAY=

TYPE=Wireless

DEVICE=eth1

HWADDR=<I've removed this for security>

BOOTPROTO=dhcp

NETMASK=

DHCP_HOSTNAME=FedoraDesktop

IPADDR=

DOMAIN=

ESSID=FarNet

CHANNEL=1

MODE=Managed

RATE=54Mb/s

If you are still having problems then check out the Distribution-specific stuff at the ndiswrapper wiki.
Hope this helps
Chris

how about trying: iwconfig enc XXXKEYXXXX