[Novalug] Help Available at May 5 Meeting on Getting NdisWrapper to Work?

[Kurt Harper]

Hi, Scott (And All).

Well, I cannot get it to work.  I even tried Don's suggestion about using
ndiswrapper RPMs put together for the CentOS 4.4 kernel with no success.  I
just don't know enough yet to get this to work.  Can I beg someone to show
me the error of my ways at tomorrow's meeting?  If so, please send me a list
of whatever you would like me to have on the machine to do a clean install
(Should I reinstall CentOS 4.4 from scratch before we begin?  I've got the
time today to do it if desired).

I'm going to wear a light blood red, white, and blue plaid shirt tomorrow so
I will be easy to find.  I'll also be carrying two laptops.

Thanks, y'all.

	--Kurt

-----Original Message-----
From: Kurt Harper [mailto:kharper at earthlink.net] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 7:56 AM
To: 'Scott Musman'
Cc: 'novalug at calypso.tux.org'
Subject: RE: [Novalug] Help Available at May 5 Meeting on GettingNdisWrapper
to Work?

Scott, there was a "make mrproper" step when I recompiled the kernel, but
NOT when I compiled ndiswrapper.  The sourceforge directions do not contain
it.  Could that be the missing step??  If so, would I compile
ndiswrapper-1.4.2 in the following way?

make mrproper
make distclean
make DISABLE_USB=1
make DISABLE_USB=1 install

	--Kurt


-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Musman [mailto:musman at aug-sys.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 9:27 PM
To: Kurt Harper
Subject: RE: [Novalug] Help Available at May 5 Meeting on GettingNdisWrapper
to Work?

Kurt,

Rebuilding kernels is something I typically do once every 2-3 years whether
I want to or not.. and it's usually to add some new hardware not recognized
by a stock kernel.

The error message you have below is saying that the kernel is not
recognizing the module. Not that I know anything about your module, but
typically you actually have to add the module during a kernel recompile by
selecting the appropriate driver that is part of the kernel, or is part of
some kernel source mod that you installed for your new device.
There are sometimes binary only modules, but I've had poor luck with those.

In your case something is not right right with the remade kernel and your
module. Often this is due to the fact that there is some dependency that
didn't get taken into account, either by failing to do a make depend, or
because you have "old" object items laying around your kernel that cause a
conflict. Normally you want to do a:

# make mrproper  

first to clear everything out, and then do your make depend, and all of the
other makes.. Make sure you save your config file before doing this however,
as it will stomp on it and ruin any settings you made. Restore it after
doing the mrproper.

Sometimes if I've had this problem I was able to solve it by selecting to
compile the device into the kernel proper rather than keeping it as a
module. You may or maynot be able to do this in your case.

Anyway.. best of luck.. Worst case.. I'm sure someone can help you at the
next meeting.

		-- Scott

On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 07:20 -0400, Kurt Harper wrote:
> Thanks for your response, Greg. I appreciate it.
> 
> I am trying to install a US Robotics MAXg card.  
> 
> I have installed the ndiwswrapper tarball, then the USRMAXG.inf and 
> .sys files.  Ndiswrapper -l gives me back the message usrmaxg: device 
> installed, device (14E4:4318) present, so that seems in order.
> 
> depmod -a comes back clear.
> 
> modprobe ndiswrapper gives me the error message:
> 
> FATAL: Error inserting ndiswrapper (/lib/modules/2.6.9-
> prep/misc/ndiswrapper.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown 
> parameter (see dmesg)
> 
> dmesg contains no reference to ndiswrapper whatsoever, and that's 
> where I'm stuck.  Searching all over the Internet gave me the clue 
> that the "Unknown symbol in module" could mean I have an old kernel, 
> but that's not so.  I'm running CentOS 4.4 kernel 2.6.9-42.0.10.  I 
> have recompiled the kernel so that it does not use the 4K stack size.
> It seems to work just fine everywhere else.
> 
> Meanwhile I have set the router to assign a static IP address and 
> turned off WEP.
> 
> Does any of that suggest a next step?
> 
>      --Kurt
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gregory pryzby [mailto:greg at pryzby.org]
> Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 7:59 AM
> To: Kurt Harper
> Cc: novalug at calypso.tux.org
> Subject: Re: [Novalug] Help Available at May 5 Meeting on Getting 
> NdisWrapper to Work?
> 
> On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 07:24:27AM -0400, Kurt Harper wrote:
> > Hi, All!
> > 
> > I need help in figuring out why I can't get ndiswrapper to work.  
> > I've been trying for three weeks without success.  Would someone be 
> > willing to spend a few minutes with me after the meeting on 
> > Saturday, May 5, to see if they can figure out what I'm doing wrong?
> > I sure would appreciate it.  I'll be easy to recognize.  I'll be the 
> > one with the bandaged head after beating his head against the wall for
three weeks.
> <g>.
> 
> What device are you trying to get to work? Make sure you have the 
> windows drivers for that device on the machine (and root password or
sudo).
> 
> Given that information I am sure we can assist. 
>  
>