[Ndiswrapper-general] ndiswrapper hangs after reboot
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From: Jan H. S. <me...@ja...> - 2006-05-01 19:24:47
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Short: I got ndiswrapper to work, but system hangs at reboot with WLAN-USB-stick. Without it, 'ndiswrapper -l' hangs. Longer version: System is Debian Sarge with kernel 2.6.8-2-386. I installed ndiswrapper 1.15 according to http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/InstallDebianSarge compiling myself. The Windows driver is AVM FRITZ!WLAN USB Stick driver version 05.04.13 (the current one). I installed wpa_supplicant and got a working WPA2 connection to my access point. Everything was fine. Then I wanted everything to work at boot time. - I added ndiswrapper to /etc/modules. - I used '-m', '-da', and '-di' for ndiswrapper assuming that this was needed to remember the configuration. - I installed ifplugd according to http://www.vollink.com/gary/deb_wifi.html with a /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf that is simply the output from wpa_passphrase. - I added 'pre-up /etc/init.d/wpasupplicant start' and 'pre-up sleep 5' to /etc/network/interfaces after reading http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=3653& (thinking that sounded logical). - I do not remember doing anything else... - I rebooted. The result was the system hanging after ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: irq 11, pci mem d8ac5000 ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4 ehci_hcd 0000:00:08.2: USB 2.0 enabled, EHCI 1.00, driver 2004-May-10 and before hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 4-0:1.0: 4 ports detected which I saw at next reboot without the stick plugged in (I switched power off and on, since I did not find a way to initiate a reboot). Now 'ndiswrapper -l' hangs displaying nothing at all no matter if the stick is plugged in or not. I am very new to Linux and I probably did something terribly wrong. I would like to stay with stable Debian Sarge. Any idea what is wrong and what I should try next? Thanks Jan Henrik |