In trouble with Wireless installation - Dlink DWL-G510

Thu Nov 18 21:04:34 UTC 2004

On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 12:51:50 -0800, Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>    This is the second time I'm writing this email. The first time I
> was in the middle of doing an ndiswrapper install and the modprobe
> step hung the system so I lost all the info. You are spared from
> reading the long version.
> 
>    Basically I planned on buying a wireless PCI card recommended by
> the ndiswrapper forums and getting it installed before my son came
> home from school and needed his PC. So much for plans... I purchased a
> DLink DWL-G510 as it was recommended as working fine on a few pages.
> The card is installed and I'm trying to get ndiswrapper running, but
> everytime I try to modprobe the drive Fedora completely hangs. No way
> to get back to the console. No way to log in remotely. Help!
> 
>    OK, first thing is so much for DLink being consistent. My card
> seems to have a different chipset than the other ones listed online.
> This one is Atheros:
> 
> 00:10.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc.: Unknown
> device 001a (rev 01)
> 
> 00:10.0 Class 0200: 168c:001a (rev 01)
> 
> Unfortunately I brought it home, put it in the PC only to find that
> there is no info on the net I could find that shows anyone has tried
> this card. Bummer.
> 
>    Here's what's on the windows CDROM:
> 
> [root at wizard root]# cd /mnt/cdrom/Drivers/Drivers/
> [root at wizard Drivers]# ls -al
> total 839
> dr-xr-xr-x  1 root root   2048 Sep  2 02:23 .
> dr-xr-xr-x  1 root root   2048 Sep  2 02:23 ..
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 root root 396224 Jul 28 03:04 A3AB9x.sys
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 root root   8747 Aug 11 02:09 A3AB.cat
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 root root 396192 Jul 28 03:02 A3AB.sys
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 root root  24576 Jan 27  2003 DWLInst.dll
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 root root  11088 Apr  1  2003 DWLNdi.dll
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 root root  16433 Jul 28 03:21 NetA3AB.inf
> [root at wizard Drivers]#
> 
> I installed ndiswrapper but got warnign messages that are senseless.
> Since they are just warnings I proceeded:
> 
> [root at wizard Drivers]# ndiswrapper -i NetA3AB.inf
> Installing neta3ab
> Warning: Cannot locate
> Warning: Cannot locate
> Warning: Cannot locate
> Warning: Cannot locate
> Warning: Cannot locate
> [root at wizard Drivers]#
> 
> According to my understanding this shows things went OK, correct?
> 
> [root at wizard Drivers]# ndiswrapper -l
> Installed ndis drivers:
> neta3ab driver present, hardware present
> [root at wizard Drivers]#
> 
> So far this looks good, right? So the next step is to modprobe ndiswrapper:
> 
> [root at wizard Drivers]# lsmod
> Module                  Size  Used by
> nls_utf8                1536  1
> udf                    72068  0
> parport_pc             19520  1
> lp                      8236  0
> parport                30536  2 parport_pc,lp
> autofs4                13828  0
> sunrpc                113380  1
> iptable_filter          2176  0
> ip_tables              14208  1 iptable_filter
> tulip                  36896  0
> floppy                 48080  0
> sg                     28320  0
> scsi_mod               93392  1 sg
> microcode               4896  0
> dm_mod                 33056  0
> uhci_hcd               24856  0
> ohci_hcd               16528  0
> ipv6                  193760  12
> ext3                  104552  2
> jbd                    44568  1 ext3
> [root at wizard Drivers]# modprobe ndiswrapper
> 
> At this point the machine is totally hung. Ctrl-C will not release
> this modprobe command. I cannot shell in from a second xterm on this
> machine:
> 
> flash mark $ ssh -X -Y -C -c blowfish -l mark 192.168.10.5
> ssh: connect to host 192.168.10.5 port 22: No route to host
> flash mark $
> 
> The only way out it a power cycle with fsck, etc.
> 
> Help! Am I hosed, or is there somethign else I can try?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Mark
> 

FYI - looking in /etc/ndiswrapper/neta3ab it looks like it installed
the Win XP version. How would I try using the Win 98 version?
(a3ab9.sys instead of a3ab.sys)

Or is this not appropriate?

[root at wizard ndiswrapper]# cd neta3ab/
[root at wizard neta3ab]# ls
168C:0013:1186:3A12.conf  168C:0013.conf            168C:001A.conf
168C:0013:1186:3A13.conf  168C:001A:1186:3A15.conf  a3ab.sys
168C:0013:1186:3A14.conf  168C:001A:1186:3A16.conf  neta3ab.inf
[root at wizard neta3ab]# ls -al
total 440
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root   4096 Nov 18 12:44 .
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root   4096 Nov 18 12:44 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    517 Nov 18 12:44 168C:0013:1186:3A12.conf
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    517 Nov 18 12:44 168C:0013:1186:3A13.conf
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    517 Nov 18 12:44 168C:0013:1186:3A14.conf
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root     49 Nov 18 12:44 168C:0013.conf ->
/etc/ndiswrapper/neta3ab/168C:0013:1186:3A12.conf
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    516 Nov 18 12:44 168C:001A:1186:3A15.conf
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    516 Nov 18 12:44 168C:001A:1186:3A16.conf
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root     49 Nov 18 12:44 168C:001A.conf ->
/etc/ndiswrapper/neta3ab/168C:001A:1186:3A15.conf
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 396192 Nov 18 12:44 a3ab.sys
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root root  16433 Nov 18 12:44 neta3ab.inf
[root at wizard neta3ab]#