[Ndiswrapper-general] 0457:0162 usb wifi, latest ndiswrapper hangs the kernel

[Giuseppe R. <gro...@st...>]

Hi guys,
I have a problem using ndiswrapper: I just bought an A4759GUH asus laptop. 
It comes with a integrated wifi usb-based card. 
I'm using fedora core 3, on a vanilla 2.6.9 kernel.

lsusb says:
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0457:0162 Silicon Integrated Systems Corp.
(lsusb -vvv hangs for a while as it has to give details for 0457:0162, but 
then it says:

Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0457:0162 Silicon Integrated Systems Corp.
Device Descriptor:
  bLength                18
  bDescriptorType         1
  bcdUSB               2.00
  bDeviceClass            0 (Defined at Interface level)
  bDeviceSubClass         0
  bDeviceProtocol         0
  bMaxPacketSize0        64
  idVendor           0x0457 Silicon Integrated Systems Corp.
  idProduct          0x0162
  bcdDevice            1.00
  iManufacturer           0
  iProduct                0
  iSerial                 0
  bNumConfigurations      1
cannot get config descriptor 0, Connection timed out (110)

http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/showdev.php?id=2789 says me that it's a 
Plus, Gericom USB Wireless LAN Adapter.
The following passages are done as root.
I downloaded also ndiswrapper-0.12.tar.gz. I detargzipped it, configured, i 
did make DEBUG=3 and make install.
So I downloaded from SiS homepage the winxp drivers, file wlan_162_r105.zip.
(as a note, the file wlan_162_r104.zip gave the same results)
I extracted the zip and cd'ed to ~/R105_Logo/setupXP2000/USB/WINXP/
i did ndiswrapper -i sis162u.inf
ndiswrapper -l says me:
Installed ndis drivers:
sis162u driver present, hardware present.
ndiswrapper -m says me:
modprobe config already contains alias directive
(
the alias directive and mod opts are:
options ndiswrapper if_name=eth1
alias eth1 ndiswrapper
)
Then i reboot, after a depmod -a.
init (or better, rc.sysinit) says me:
loadndisdriver: loadndisdriver: put_device(285): Error adding setting: 
ndis_version
then ifconfig hangs, ifup wlan0 hangs.
And my keyboard becomes delayed when the ndiswrapper mod is loaded.
I also tried to use the other usb win2k,winMe,win98 drivers. The result is the 
same. 
(I noticed that ndiswrapped had always probed a different MAC address every 
time that it has been loaded. and ifup eth1 complained about it. So I 
removed the mac address line in ifcfg-eth1 
in /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/, but the result is the same: ifconfig 
hangs, ifup eth1 hangs.)
rmmod ndiswrapper restores the situation, i.e. the interface is still down but 
at least my keyboard is ok.
(as a note, aliasing as eth1 or as wlan0 in modrpbe.conf turned out to the 
same result...)
I have also used the latest nightly tarball and the result is a kernel 
panic: I copied on paper the trace, what follows is what i guess are the most 
relevant infos (besides, isn't there a trick,or a module to load or a file to 
check after a kernel panic to automate these reports?)

Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 00200218
printing eip:
e0dce02a *pde=00000000
Oops:0002 [#1]
Modules linked in: ndiswrapper button battery asus_acpi ac ohci1394 ieee1394 
snd_intel8x0 snd_ac97_codec ...and others...
eip:0060 [<...hex numbers...>] not tainted vli
EIP is at usb_transfer_complete_tasklet+0x2b/0x138 [ndiswrapper]
...
...
...
Call trace
[...hex numbers...] tasklet_action +0x40/0x61
[...hex numbers...] __do_softirq ...
[...hex numbers...] do_softirq ...
[...hex numbers...] do_IRQ ...
[...hex numbers...] common_interrupt ...
[...hex numbers...] bmap ...
[...hex numbers...] journal_bmap
...
...
...
Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt.

So this is what i did:
[root@localhost ndiswrapper]# ndiswrapper-buginfo
Is it okay to shutdown 'wlan0' interface and reload the module?
If loading the module crashes kernel, then say N here
Reload ndiswrapper module? [N/y]:N
please attach /tmp/ndiswrapper-buginfo.gz to your bugreport!

And here's attached the file.
Ok, this is the end of my long email, I would like to thank you for your 
attention and for any advice you might give me.
--
Giuseppe Rota