intermittent ndiswrapper problem in 8.10

[murlig]

Hi all,

I recently upgraded from 7.10 to 8.10 and I have been having intermittent problems with wireless connectivity. (I also did a clean install and the problem remains).

After reading multiple reports and trying both network manager and WICD, I have determined that the problem is with ndiswrapper not configuring my wlan0 interface correctly at bootup intermittently.. Meaning, wlan0 is configured at times, not at other times.

In the same box, I have PCLOS07 and have never had a problem with wlanX detection. Neither was it a problem with 7.10.

Here's a snippet from dmesg | grep -e ndis -e wlan from 8.10 when things work.
[ 17.144249] ndiswrapper version 1.53 loaded (smp=yes, preempt=no)
[ 17.937566] ndiswrapper: driver mrv8335 (eHome,08/22/2005,3.2.1.3) loaded
[ 17.938328] ndiswrapper 0000:01:0d.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
[ 17.950048] ndiswrapper: using IRQ 17
[ 18.409210] wlan0: ethernet device 00:19:5b:03:6b:de using NDIS driver: mrv8335, version: 0x3020002, NDIS version: 0x501, vendor: 'NDIS Network Adapter', 11AB:1FAA.5.conf
[ 18.409258] wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP; TKIP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK; AES/CCMP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK
[ 18.414494] usbcore: registered new interface driver ndiswrapper
[ 38.698615] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[ 46.582462] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[ 52.522431] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready
[ 63.412065] wlan0: no IPv6 routers present

Now here are the messages when they dont work , again with 8.10
[ 17.651001] ndiswrapper version 1.53 loaded (smp=yes, preempt=no)
[ 18.348266] ndiswrapper: driver mrv8335 (eHome,08/22/2005,3.2.1.3) loaded
[ 18.349032] ndiswrapper 0000:01:0d.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
[ 18.360772] ndiswrapper: using IRQ 17
[ 18.646140] ndiswrapper (mp_init:219): couldn't initialize device: C0000001
[ 18.646162] ndiswrapper (pnp_start_device:435): Windows driver couldn't initialize the device (C0000001)
[ 18.646203] ndiswrapper (mp_halt:262): device dd010480 is not initialized - not halting
[ 18.646211] ndiswrapper: device eth%d removed
[ 18.646276] ndiswrapper 0000:01:0d.0: PCI INT A disabled
[ 18.646315] ndiswrapper: probe of 0000:01:0d.0 failed with error -22
[ 18.651493] usbcore: registered new interface driver ndiswrapper

Here's the same message from PCLOS07 (working)
ndiswrapper version 1.48 loaded (smp=yes, preempt=no)
ndiswrapper: driver mrv8335 (eHome,08/22/2005,3.2.1.3) loaded
ndiswrapper: using IRQ 18
wlan0: ethernet device 00:19:5b:03:6b:de using NDIS driver: mrv8335, version: 0x3020002, NDIS version: 0x501, vendor: '', 11AB:1FAA.5.conf
wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP; TKIP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK; AES/CCMP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK
usbcore: registered new driver ndiswrapper
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready
wlan0: no IPv6 routers present

I am also attching complete dmesg output from PCLOS07 when it works and Ubuntu 8.10 when wlanX is not configured.

I would be happy to provide any more information. Gets real frustrating when the driver is initialized at times and not at times!

thanks