[Ndiswrapper-general] Possible problem with ndiswrapper

[Nikhil D. <nik...@gm...>]

Hi there,

I use a Dlink DWL-G122 wireless USB adaptor for my home network on my 
desktop PC.

What I found was that when the dongle was plugged into my high speed USB 
port (that are available on my motherboard), the dongle set-up was very 
unreliable. Not only would the "configuring network interfaces" at 
start-up simply go on and on and on (despite time-outs and what have 
you), it would also not configure the dongle!!

I would have to unplug and plug in the dongle once or several times 
(like the probability of tossing a coin for every plug in) before it 
would get initialised by ndiswrapper and the wireless interface becomes 
enabled.

The consistent message that I would see in my dmesg was
usb 8-2: reset high speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address N

This "N" would increment every time I unplugged and plugged in the dongle.

To get around the problem, I have now plugged in the dongle on a slow 
speed USB port (on one of my PCI cards), and ndiswrapper works reliably 
with it.

So I wonder if this is something to do with the high speed device, and 
is there a conflict between the hotplug scripts and ndiswrapper!!

BTW, the hardware revision that I am using is B1 for the dongle, so I 
use ralink drivers.

Any enhancements that you can make in ndiswrapper during the next 
release will be much appreciated and received with thanks.

Cheers,

N