[Ndiswrapper-general] version 0.10 - ubuntu-debian package: ndiswrapper-utils

[Matthias R. <Mat...@ju...>]

Hi!

 I have installed the ndiswrapper-utils -package 0.10 from
Ubuntulinux/Debian successfully and could configure it, so that I got
the message: usr11g hardware present. The card is a USR 5410 PCMCIA. 
Then I typed ndiswarpper -m.

Trying to type "modprobe ndiswrapper" I got the message: "FATAL: Module
ndiswrapper not found". I can locate the ndiswrapper file in
etc/modprobe.d/. The built LED has no light but the card is identified
by my device manager.
I tried depmod -a, set the ndiswrapper-link with -ln from /usr/sbin to
sbin. I deactivated ACPI in order to avoid possible conflicts and
followed the guidelines and faqs offered on
www.ndiwrapper.sourceforge.org. 

I also found messages regarding a possible problem with the 2.6.-kernel
on http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=70 . 
Typing dmesg after reading this I got the message listed at the bottom
of this text. The difference between the message reported on this
website is that my card seems to have been lodaded in some way by the
expermental kernel-driver.

rmmod ndiswrapper said that the module ndiswrapper does not exist in
/proc/modules. Indeed there is no file called ndiswrapper in this
directory.

The bootup-protocol tells me that ndiswrapper is loaded. But instead of
a white star opening the line of other active modules a red star
appears.

 Has someone an idea what went wrong during installation and
configuration? 
Thx for any help

Matthew

Linux Kernel Card Services
  options:  [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 0000:00:08.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 0000:00:08.1
Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:00:08.0 [1071:ac1c]
Yenta: Enabling burst memory read transactions
Yenta: Using CSCINT to route CSC interrupts to PCI
Yenta: Routing CardBus interrupts to PCI
Yenta TI: socket 0000:00:08.0, mfunc 0x01dc1622, devctl 0x64
Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x0018, PCI irq 10
Socket status: 30000020
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 0000:00:08.1
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 0000:00:08.0
Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:00:08.1 [1071:ac1c]
Yenta: Using CSCINT to route CSC interrupts to PCI
Yenta: Routing CardBus interrupts to PCI
Yenta TI: socket 0000:00:08.1, mfunc 0x01dc1622, devctl 0x64
Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x0018, PCI irq 10
Socket status: 30000010
acx100: It looks like you were coaxed into buying a wireless network
card
acx100: that uses the mysterious ACX100 chip from Texas Instruments.
acx100: You should better have bought e.g. a PRISM(R) chipset based
card,
acx100: since that would mean REAL vendor Linux support.
acx100: Given this info, it's evident that this driver is quite
EXPERIMENTAL,
acx100: thus your mileage may vary. Visit http://acx100.sf.net for
support.
acx100_init_module: dev_info is: TI acx_pci
acx100_init_module: TI acx_pci.o: Ver 0.2.0pre8 Driver initialized,
waiting for cards to probe...
PCI: Enabling device 0000:02:00.0 (0000 -> 0002)
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:02:00.0 to 64
acx100_probe_pci: WARNING: ACX111 support is highly experimental!
Found ACX111-based wireless network card at 0000:02:00.0, irq:10,
phymem1:0x20820000, phymem2:0x20800000, mem1:0xc4a1a000, mem1_size:8192,
mem2:0xc4b69000, mem2_size:131072.
acx100_probe_pci: using ACX111 io resource addresses (size: 54)
hw_unavailable = 1
acx_show_card_eeprom_id: EEPROM card ID string check found empty card
ID: this is a DWL-650+ variant, no??
reset hw_unavailable++
acx100_reset_mac: enable soft reset...
acx100_reset_mac: disable soft reset and go to init mode...
ERROR: no directory for firmware file specified, ABORTING. Make sure to
set module parameter 'firmware_dir'! (specified as absolute path!)
acx100_reset_dev: Failed to upload firmware to the ACX111
acx100_probe_pci: TI acx_pci: MAC initialize failure!
acx100_probe_pci: TI acx_pci.o: Ver 0.2.0pre8 Loading FAILED
acx_pci: probe of 0000:02:00.0 failed with error -5