[Ndiswrapper-general] Problems using ndiswrapper with Intel Pro/Wireless 2200 BG

[Deven G. <dev...@ya...>]

Hi! I've been trying to get my Intel Pro/Wireless 2200
BG (Revision 05) working for about 2 days straight
now, and it's driving me nuts. The IPW2200 driver
doesn't work at all, so I'm going with ndiswrapper. I
have a Compaq Presario X1300 with a Pentium-M 1.4 GHz
(a 'Centrino' platform notebook.) I am running Debian
Testing (sarge) distribution with a 2.4.26 kernel, but
have also tried 2.6.5, 2.6.6, and 2.6.7.

In 2.4.26, I downloaded and compiled the sources for
ndiswrapper and compiled. For kernel sources to link
against, I set /lib/modules/2.4.26/build to
/usr/src/linux, the location of the sources I built
the running kernel from. I did make, make install, and
tried loading a driver, the one recommended on the
ndiswrapper page for my card. I later tried other
drivers to no avail.

Upon doing modprobe nsdiswrapper I get an error to
this general effect:

PCI: Guessed IRQ 11 for Device 02:02.0

.. then the system locks up! I tried reinstalling the
kernel, the entire OS, even, and still get this. I
don't know of any way around this. The device is
indeed located at 02:02.0 but I do not know its IRQ or
how to specify the correct one, if it's getting it
wrong.

In Kernel 2.6.x, I had a problem wherein any module I
compiled, like for ipw2200, ndiswrapper or
DriverLoader, could not be INSMOD'ed. I would get an
error stating "Insmod: xxxxxx.ko (Invalid Module
Format)." I forced the modules into the kernel
(despite much griping), after which point I had an
eth2 interface in iwconfig that would not accept any
options (Operation Not Supported whenever I entered
any config commands.) DriverLoader's web interface
reported that no windows driver I loaded was working
(No Devices Found error.)

So I guess I'm stuck with 2.4 and pretty much screwed.
If anyone can offer some assistance I would greatly
appreciate it. Thank you.

-- Deven Gallo


		
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