Date: May 5, 2007 From: David Lee Evans Email Address: hud snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.com website:
Hello, perhaps somebody can help me solve a problem that I am having installing a WPNT511 wireless card in my latitude C600/C500 laptop computer. I ran into a similar problem before, while I was living in Newark, N.J. There are a lot of computer repair facilities up that way, and a technician mention that it could be a conflict of interrupts problem. To solve that problem,I just purchase a different type of card and the problem went away. However, this time, that is not a perfered option.
I just bought the laptop computer and immediately installed Linux on it. So I don't know if the wireless card ever worked in MS windows. When I compiled ndiswrapper it, complained that the kernel CONFIG_4KSTACKS option was enable and that ndiswrapper would not function with this option selected. So I downloaded the Linux source code and compiled with the CONFIG_8KSTACKS stack option enable. Here is the output from cat /proc/version. Linux version 2.6.18.2 ( snipped-for-privacy@localhost.localdomain) (gcc version 4.1.1
20061011 (Red Hat 4.1.1-30)) #3 SMP Sun May 6 01:21:01 EDT 2007 I then recompiled ndiswrapper, here is the version info output for that command. command used> ndiswrapper -vutils version: 1.9 driver filename: /lib/modules/2.6.18.2/misc/ndiswrapper.ko version: 1.43 vermagic: 2.6.18.2 SMP mod_unload PENTIUMIII REGPARM gcc-4.1
------------------------------------------------------------------- I then transfer the following files from the XPwindows WPNT511 driver DVD, into a test directory. aninet.cat NETANI.INF tmimo30P.sys tmimo31P.sys tmimo3.bin tmimo3P.inf wni6000.bin WniHdd50.sys WniHdd51.sys
and then performed ndiswrapper -i tmimo3P.inf with no visible errors being displayed.
command used> ndiswrapper -l tmimo3p : driver installed device (17CB:0002) present
Ok, every thing looks good up to this point.
------------------------------------------------------------------- Now I perform the following command, maybe to provide some additional clues to my installation problem. command used> lspci -v . . "Edited Output" .
06:00.0 Ethernet controller: Airgo Networks Inc AGN300 802.11 a/b/g True MIMO Wireless Card (rev 01) Subsystem: Netgear Unknown device 6d00 Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 11 Memory at 26080000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=128K] Memory at 26000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=512K] Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ok, here comes the problem, after I perform the initialization, process with the modprobe ndiswrapper command the system hangs until I pull out the wireless card and the following errors are displayed on the screen and dmesg log file.
ndiswrapper version 1.43 loaded (smp=yes) ndiswrapper: driver tmimo3p (NETGEAR Networks, Inc.,10/28/2005,
2.0.1.19) loaded PCI: Enabling device 0000:06:00.0 (0000 -> 0002) ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:06:00.0[A] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 ndiswrapper: using IRQ 11 ndiswrapper (NdisWriteErrorLogEntry:199): log: C000138A, count: 8, return_address: d0b2c84a ndiswrapper (NdisWriteErrorLogEntry:202): code: 0x506c6168 ndiswrapper (NdisWriteErrorLogEntry:202): code: 0x6f667265 ndiswrapper (NdisWriteErrorLogEntry:202): code: 0x79536d72 ndiswrapper (NdisWriteErrorLogEntry:202): code: 0x6d657473 ndiswrapper (NdisWriteErrorLogEntry:202): code: 0x65736552 ndiswrapper (NdisWriteErrorLogEntry:202): code: 0x61432074 ndiswrapper (NdisWriteErrorLogEntry:202): code: 0x64656c6c ndiswrapper (NdisWriteErrorLogEntry:202): code: 0xa ndiswrapper (NdisWriteErrorLogEntry:199): log: C000138A, count: 8, return_address: d0b2c84a ndiswrapper (NdisWriteErrorLogEntry:202): code: 0x576c6168 ndiswrapper (NdisWriteErrorLogEntry:202): code: 0x46746961 ndiswrapper (NdisWriteErrorLogEntry:202): code: 0x6545726f ndiswrapper (NdisWriteErrorLogEntry:202): code: 0x6d6f7270 ndiswrapper (NdisWriteErrorLogEntry:202): code: 0x79737542 ndiswrapper (NdisWriteErrorLogEntry:202): code: 0x61656c43 ndiswrapper (NdisWriteErrorLogEntry:202): code: 0x53203a72 ndiswrapper (NdisWriteErrorLogEntry:202): code: 0x746174 ndiswrapper (miniport_init:271): couldn't initialize device: C0000001 ndiswrapper (pnp_start_device:425): Windows driver couldn't initialize the device (C0000001)"*PERSONAL NOTE: MY OWN ENTRY INSERTED HERE. The system hangs up I must pull out PCI Card to free up the system."
pccard: card ejected from slot 1 unregister_netdevice: device eth%d/c2d6a000 never was registered ndiswrapper (miniport_halt:335): device c2d6a400 is not initialized - not halting ndiswrapper: device eth%d removed ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:06:00.0 disabled ndiswrapper: probe of 0000:06:00.0 failed with error -22 usbcore: registered new driver ndiswrapper
---------------------------------------------------------- Any constructive suggestions, in helping me solve my laptop wireless card problem would be very appreciated. Perhaps using setpci toggle some registers? or some other type magical solution. Thanks, for your attention. David