ndiswrapper

Claus M. Christiansen wrote:

>
>
> Hi list...
>
> I have recently purchased a Linksys WUSB54G as I saw on the wiki that 
> it was supposed to be working great with ndiswrapper. Unfortunaly I 
> received version 4 of the WUSB54G so it did not work after all.
>
> When I load ndiswrapper with the .inf (rt2500usb.inf) and modprobe 
> ndiswrapper it does infact register wlan0 and I can see it in iwconfig 
> and ifconfig and it does not complain when trying to set ie essid.
>
> The problem is, as you might have guessed, that I can not connect to 
> my router, a Linksys WRT54G. I can set the WEP key just fine, I have 
> not tried WPA (yet), but it does not get associated with the router. I 
> have tried setting essid and get no error, but the essid key remains 
> "off/any".
>
> iwlist wlan0 scan did at one time return a result, but I did not pay 
> attention to what I was doing so I have been unable to recreate the 
> result.
>
> I was just wondering if I can do anything in order to help get it 
> working? Since the device can actually be "seen" by iwconfig it must 
> be close to working.
>
> Sincerly
>
> Claus M. Christiansen
>
>

Hello again

Since I can't seem to find head or tails in the source (and can't seem 
to find the time at the moment), and the fact that I also bought two of 
the WUSB54Gv4 I thought of donating one of them to ndiswrapper in order 
to (hopefully) get it working.

I would like to know where I can send one so the right people can put it 
to most use?

Sincerly
Claus M. Christiansen

Hi list

I'm trying to get a Linksys WUSB54Gv4 working with ndiswrapper, and so 
far I have had good "luck" doing so.

After i modprobe'd ndiswrapper it registers wlan0 as I expect and 
everything looks as it should, but no matter what I have tried so far I 
can get it to associate with my AP. I seems that i does not find it at all!

iwconfig returns:
wlan0     IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:"Santas Workshop"  Nickname:"none"
          Mode:Auto  Frequency:2.437 GHz  Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
          Bit Rate=11 Mb/s   Tx-Power:20 dBm   Sensitivity=-121 dBm
          RTS thr=2347 B   Fragment thr=2346 B
          Encryption key:11BD-E711-2522-7B30-8A1B-55BA-52   Security 
mode:open
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0


which looks just fine, except the Access Point MAC address is all 0, and 
the fact that I am unable to change Mode or Rate via iwconfig wlan0 
mode/rate Managed/54M.

I'm using kernel 2.6.14 with ndiswrapper 1.5.
So far I have tried to completly remove ndiswrapper, with make uninstall 
and remove /etc/ndiswrapper/rt2500usb, and install once again from 
source. (I read that it might help if I had older versions of 
ndiswrapper installed as well). Unfortuanely I got the same result as 
before!

I stumpled across 
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=368969 
and did the:
modprobe -r ehci-hcd
modprobe ehci-hcd log2_irq_thresh=4
modprobe ndiswrapper

but that did not help either

Have anyone else got the WUSB54Gv4 working? I'm using kernel 2.6.14, 
ndiswrapper 1.5 and debian.

Sincerly

Claus