ndiswrapper stability?

Tomoki Taniguchi tomoki.taniguchi at gmail.com
Tue Jul 17 00:34:51 UTC 2007


I have recently installed ndiswrapper to a newly installed and
upgraded feisty laptop.
i have installed the latest ndiswrapper in the repository.

sudo ndiswrapper -v
gives me
<snip>
utuks Error: no version specified!
driver version: 1.38
vermagic:  2.6.20-generic SMP mod_unload 586
<snip>

I installed the latest windows XP driver from Intel for my
Intel wireless wifi link 4965AG chip.

sudo ndiswrapper -l
gives me
<snip>
netw4x32:  driver installed
    device (8086:4229) present
<snip>

when i load i got a wlan0 device
which seemed to work fine.
until my pc crashed.

I rebooted and noticed some error messages about ndiswrapper
this is what was in the dmesg
<snip>
ndiswrapper (NdisWriteErrorLogEntry:231) : log: 40001B7C, count: 2,
return_address: e06ed5d2
ndiswrapper (NdisWriteErrorLogEntry:234) : code: 0x56524457
ndiswrapper (NdisWriteErrorLogEntry:234) : code 0xddd
<snip>
after boot i couldn't reconnect with my wireless network.

I tried to unload the ndiswrapper at which point everything but my
mouse locked up.
I ended up having to force reboot the system.

I am wondering there is a stability issue with the ndiswrapper module?

TIA,
Tomoki




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