Re: [Ndiswrapper-general] Driver entry returns error (smc2602w)

[Martijn H. <ti...@ti...>]

Hey,

[...]
> > I do have to say this is the first time I am actually programming at
> > this level, so this is all new for me. Especially ndiswrapper itself,
> > which is a complete fuss to me.
> >
> :-) I know worse code :-)

Oh, sure. It's not the code is bad, it's more that I am missing the overview 
of the structure. It probably is there ... I just can not understand it 
yet :-)

[...]
> Ok, but you don*t know that there is no hardware in my computer
> present. Really _no_ hardware. Yust started the driver. That means,
> that the ndiswrapper could not find/localize/initialize or something else
> the hardware if your log is _really_ the same. Is there also a load-
> ndisdriver-error? And no /proc/net/ndiswrapper/...?

Log is quite the same, yes. I suppose it would start scanning the hardware 
_after_ the driver has been loaded, which is never done, because of the 
error. The command 'ndiswrapper -l' show both the driver as the hardware as 
present, so at least that works. /proc/net/ndiswrapper is empty.

Interestingly, if I remove the return entry in wrapper.c:start_driver if it 
somehow fails to finish the entry, it gets a bit further, showing this 
output:

ndiswrapper (start_driver:1876): Driver entry returns error
ndiswrapper (start_driver:1880): Nr devices: 2
ndiswrapper (start_driver:1907): Adding 1022:2003:1022:2003 to pci idtable
ndiswrapper (start_driver:1907): Adding 1022:2003:ffffffff:ffffffff to pci 
idtable
ndiswrapper (ndis_init_one_pci:1556): Enter 1022:2003:ffffffff:ffffffff
PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 0000:00:13.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 0000:00:10.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 0000:00:14.0
ndiswrapper (ndis_init_one_pci:1592): Calling ndis init routine
ndiswrapper (miniport_init:272): Enter driver init routine is at 00000000
ndiswrapper (miniport_init:275): initialization function is not setup 
correctly
ndiswrapper (ndis_init_one_pci:1596): Windows driver couldn't initialize the 
device (FFFFFFEA)
ndiswrapper (ndis_init_one_pci:1651): Exit
netam772: probe of 0000:00:13.0 failed with error -22
ndiswrapper: driver netam772 (Advanced Micro Devices,01/26/2004,2.2.0.0) added

So, it _does_ find driver versioning all of a sudden. 

> First i found something on the net that says that the you have not to
> use the xp2k-files. The me98-files will work.
> You*ve just tried that? And the smcw2602-files seems to be much
> newer then the files i*ve found.

http://www.smc.com/files/AF/DR2602WV3.zip are the latest on SMC.com and are 
the same I got along with the CD. Also nice to note: there seems to be a 
whole collection of versions of this smc2602w card. Mine is V.3 (Europe).

[...]
> If you look at the loadndisdriver- and pe_loader.c-code, you will see
> there some code wich is looking and loading for some  sys, dll, ...-files.

Ok. I might have to try and hook up some windows harddisk and try it out in 
windows, see if I can make it work w/o installing extra .dll files. Maybe 
this weekend I shall try it out.

Regards,
-- 
tinus.