Re: [Ndiswrapper-general] Atheros 5211

[Jan K. <jan...@we...>]

Giridhar Pemmasani wrote:
> The CVS now has support for Atheros 5211. I have tested this with
> Orinoco Proxim 802.11a/b card (pci id: 168c:0012). I have used the
> drivers that came with the CD as I couldn't find the drivers on the
> net. If anyone has Atheros 5211 chipset and want to give CVS a spin
> and give feedback, we can either announce that it works or see if it
> needs any fixing.
> 

Well, there are some improvements, but it is still not working with my 
driver :(.

I recently installed the latest drivers version for the IBM 802.11a/b/g 
Wireless LAN Mini PCI card sold for R40 Thinkpads and some other models 
(see 
http://www-306.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-52527). 
The result was an immediate crash during insmod, this is now solved!

But - and here are the bad news - ndiswrapper crashes on:

  o packet reception or transmission (not yet clear which case, the EIP
    is interestingly 0x13131313 - any known pattern?)
  o multiple "iwconfig <dev> essid XYZ" commands

And it is still not possible to persuade my driver to switch to ad-hoc 
mode...

Regarding the last point, I had the suspicion that some unresolved 
registry entries were the reason. But even after fixing 
NdisReadConfiguration() (must be case insensitive, see nocase.patch) and 
hacking some entries which are available under Windows, the problem 
still remains.

I also attached a small patch to use the latest gcc that comes with SuSE 
9.1 with older 2.4 kernels (here: 2.4.21).

If I'll find some time, I will try to dig deeper after the first crash. 
But it is difficult for me to debug, because - I think I already 
complaint before - my notebook has no serial port for a kernel debugger, 
and I don't own an access point let the driver attach at all...

Greetings,
Jan