ndis wrapper error in Slackware 10.2

JockVSJock · 01-16-2006, 02:29 PM

I have an Orinoco gold card 11b/g and the cardmgr detects it, so I've gotten the WindowsXP driver and d/l'ed that on the XP side.

Installed ndiswrapper and have run the commands that have created /etc/ndiswrapper.

When I run ndiswrapper -l as root, I get the following output:

Code:

root@probot:/home/cmmiller/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper-1.7/utils# ./ndiswrapper -l
Installed drivers:
inffile invalid driver!

I also have checked out the wiki, but don't see a solution there either.

thanks

raska · 01-16-2006, 03:02 PM

looks like a corrupted driver to me ... try another one or download it again

what do you get issuing iwconfig as root?

chess · 01-16-2006, 03:09 PM

Are you doing the "ndiswrapper -i <driver>" inside the directory where the driver is located? Also, do you have both the .inf and the .sys files in the directory?

insaneavocado · 01-16-2006, 03:10 PM

also, one problem what I sometimes had with it is you have to make sure you have the .inf the .cat and the .sys file all of the same name in the directory you get the .inf file from; I did it a few times with JUST the .inf file and that messes it up and brings up the message you got.

JockVSJock · 01-16-2006, 05:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by raska

looks like a corrupted driver to me ... try another one or download it again

what do you get issuing iwconfig as root?

Code:

root@probot:~# iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

JockVSJock · 01-16-2006, 05:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jackson1995

Are you doing the "ndiswrapper -i <driver>" inside the directory where the driver is located? Also, do you have both the .inf and the .sys files in the directory?

Code:

root@probot:/ntfs-c/Documents and Settings/CMMiller/My Documents/Orinoco/Winxp# ls -a
./  ../  ntpr11ag.cat  ntpr11ag.inf  ntpr11ag.sys

Yes, bot .inf and .sys are both in the same directory where I'm running the command from...

MS3FGX · 01-16-2006, 07:54 PM

Why exactly are you trying to use ndiswrapper for an Orinoco gold card? Orinoco cards are natively supported very well by the kernel.

JockVSJock · 01-16-2006, 08:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MS3FGX

Why exactly are you trying to use ndiswrapper for an Orinoco gold card? Orinoco cards are natively supported very well by the kernel.

If thats true, they why doesn't iwconfig detect anything once I slap the card into the pcmcia slot?

When I ran Ubuntu with the same type of card, I had to also use the ndiswrapper to get it to work.

JockVSJock · 01-22-2006, 07:47 PM

I've d/l'ed the Orinoco driver for the NDIS wrapper again and it was a no go.

I'm posting some of my cardctl info to help with the troubleshooting:

Code:

root@probot:~# cardctl status
Socket 0:
  3.3V CardBus card
  function 0: [ready]
root@probot:~# cardctl config
Socket 0:
  Vcc 3.3V  Vpp1 3.3V  Vpp2 3.3V
  interface type is "cardbus"
  function 0:
root@probot:~# cardctl ident
Socket 0:
  product info: "Atheros Communications, Inc.", "AR5001-0000-0000", "Wireless LAN Reference Card", "00"
  manfid: 0x0271, 0x0012
  function: 6 (network)

Also, I have another wireless card that works upon bootup with Slackware. It is a WaveLAN Silver card, and the funny thing is, it can get on my neighbor's wireless AP (there's not WEP and I live in an apartment). I have a AP, it is locked down, and I can't detect it with KWireless.

Also using iwlist can't see my locked down AP.

Any ideas how I can get the orinoco card to work

or

get the WaveLAN card to find my locked down AP?

thanks

Crobat · 01-22-2006, 09:32 PM

did you run the following?

Code:

ndiswrapper -i DriverName.inf

Please replace DriverName with the name of your Driver.

JockVSJock · 01-22-2006, 10:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Crobat

did you run the following?

Code:

ndiswrapper -i DriverName.inf

Please replace DriverName with the name of your Driver.

This is the output

Code:

root@probot:/home/cmmiller/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper-1.7/utils# ./ndiswrapper -i /ntfs-c/Documents and Settings/CMMiller/My Documents/Orinoco/Winxp/ntpr11ag.inf
Usage: ndiswrapper OPTION

Manage ndis drivers for ndiswrapper.
-i inffile        Install driver described by 'inffile'
-d devid driver   Use installed 'driver' for 'devid'
-e driver         Remove 'driver'
-l                List installed drivers
-m                Write configuration for modprobe


where 'devid' is either PCIID or USBID of the form XXXX:XXXX

Am I not doing something right here?

thanks

BCarey · 01-22-2006, 10:33 PM

Try

Code:

./ndiswrapper -i "/ntfs-c/Documents and Settings/CMMiller/My Documents/Orinoco/Winxp/ntpr11ag.inf"

ie. put quotes around the file name or else escape the spaces in the path with \.

Brian

chrisortiz · 01-22-2006, 11:46 PM

if it is supported nicely by the kernel, lets take that approach. That way you can avoid the windows wrapper/driver all together.

what do you get when you type lsmod?

Alien Bob · 01-23-2006, 02:02 PM

Quote:

product info: "Atheros Communications, Inc."

It is an Atheros card, you will need the madwifi driver for that: http://madwifi.org/

Eric

JockVSJock · 01-23-2006, 09:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chrisortiz

if it is supported nicely by the kernel, lets take that approach. That way you can avoid the windows wrapper/driver all together.

what do you get when you type lsmod?

cmmiller@probot:~$ lsmod
Module Size Used by Not tainted
snd-pcm-oss 36736 0
snd-mixer-oss 12376 0 [snd-pcm-oss]
uhci 24284 0 (unused)
ehci-hcd 17516 0 (unused)
usbcore 59148 1 [uhci ehci-hcd]
snd-via82xx 13376 0
gameport 1420 0 [snd-via82xx]
snd-ac97-codec 58556 0 [snd-via82xx]
snd-pcm 54344 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-via82xx snd-ac97-codec]
snd-timer 13764 0 [snd-pcm]
snd-mpu401-uart 3136 0 [snd-via82xx]
snd-rawmidi 12480 0 [snd-mpu401-uart]
snd-seq-device 3812 0 [snd-rawmidi]
snd 32772 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-via82xx snd-ac97-codec snd-pcm snd-timer snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device]
snd-page-alloc 4712 0 [snd-mixer-oss snd-via82xx snd-pcm snd-timer snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd]
soundcore 3396 4 [snd]
via-rhine 12336 1
mii 2272 0 [via-rhine]
crc32 2880 0 [via-rhine]
ds 6548 1
yenta_socket 10436 1
pcmcia_core 39172 0 [ds yenta_socket]
ntfs 51232 1 (autoclean)
ide-scsi 9392 0