[Ndiswrapper-general] A few ndiswrapper problems...

[Mark W. (MWP) <mw...@in...>]

Greetings all,

The card im trying to use is a Netgear WG311v3.
I am using the latest "Marvell Semiconductor Libertas 802.11b/g" WinXP
drivers which AFAIK are the best drivers for the card.
The kernel is 2.6.12, and ndiswrapper is latest CVS.

First problem...

After a reboot, if i just run "modprobe ndiswrapper", modprobe doesnt return to
the command line, and it cannot be killed.
I have to reboot to have another chance of getting it working.
If i rebuild and reinstall ndiswrapper after reboot, "modprobe ndiswrapper"
works perfectly.

Second problem...

I init the card with:
iwconfig wlan0 mode ad-hoc channel 5
iwconfig wlan0 key restricted s:xxxxx
sleep 1s
iwconfig wlan0 essid HomeLan

After doing so i get LOTS of "setting essid failed" messages in the syslog.
I thought a delay after setting the key should fix this?

On running "iwlist wlan0 scan" i get:

wlan0     Scan completed :
  Cell 01 - Address: 86:75:EB:48:0C:89
			ESSID:"HomeLan"
			Protocol:IEEE 802.11b
			Mode:Ad-Hoc
			Frequency:2.432 GHz (Channel 5)
			Quality:0/100  Signal level:-91 dBm  Noise level:-256 dBm
			Encryption key:off
			Bit Rate:1 Mb/s
			Bit Rate:2 Mb/s
			Bit Rate:5.5 Mb/s
			Bit Rate:11 Mb/s
			Extra:bcn_int=100
			Extra:atim=0

As you can see, "Encryption key" is off and 54Mbit is not availiable (because its 802.11b?).
How can i turn required encryption on, and enable 54Mbit?

Thanks a lot for any help!
 Mark W.