[Lilux-help] Centrino WLAN with ndiswrapper

[Pascal Steichen]

Hi guys,

Got this centrino laptop with GNU/Linux (Fedora) which is fighting around with the intel pro 2100 wlan card.
Tried ndiswrapper : driver installed correctly, module however got problems.

dmesg shows the following :

ndiswrapper version 0.5 loaded
ndiswrapper adding w70n51.sys
Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 00620061
 printing eip:
228452cf
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0000 [#1]
CPU:    0
EIP:    0060:[<228452cf>]    Tainted: P
EFLAGS: 00010212   (2.6.3-2.1.253)
EIP is at NdisMRegisterMiniport+0x0/0x2f [ndiswrapper]
eax: 22ae4aa0   ebx: 00000000   ecx: 12cd6e70   edx: 00620061
esi: 16ee1104   edi: 08b10084   ebp: 12cd6ef8   esp: 12cd6e4c
ds: 007b   es: 007b   ss: 0068
Process loadndisdriver (pid: 5072, threadinfo=12cd6000 task=12c9f340)
Stack: 2289a58e 00620061 12cd6e70 0000007c 00620061 08b50000 00000000 00620061
       00000000 00000105 0e849f00 2289acc0 228b7b90 228b7bd0 2289aad0 228b7e30
       2289a5a0 228b7e60 2289f7d0 00000000 2289afb0 00000000 228a1690 00000000
Call Trace:
 [<22843423>] call_entry+0x28/0x2c [ndiswrapper]
 [<228446d8>] start_driver+0xd/0x13f [ndiswrapper]
 [<22844f77>] misc_ioctl+0xe2/0x15c [ndiswrapper]
 [<021c37e7>] selinux_file_permission+0x127/0x131
 [<02168336>] filp_dtor+0x0/0x104
 [<0216869e>] __fput+0xa6/0xcb
 [<0217c1cb>] sys_ioctl+0x2a0/0x341


looks really bad, might need some kernel hacking :( ! Anyone any solution ideas ??

will try the new intel based project http://ipw2100.sourceforge.net/ now ;)

thanks in advance for the help


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