USB Wi-Fi dongle US Robotics USR5422

[Antonjo]

I have an USB Wi-Fi dongle US Robotics USR5422.

I followed the procedure described here:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wi...er/Ndiswrapper

The adapter works for a few seconds, then the system completely freezes and I have to hard reset.

I tried to compile myself the ndiswrapper-1.56.tar.gz but I get the error:

Unknown field 'ioctl' specified in initializer


I tried also to install/compile ndiswrapper dpkg.

I wire-connected the laptop and updated the system.

No luck in any cases.

Note that I ran a live Puppy Linux on an USB stick and the adapter was recognised automatically out of the box.

Can you help?


I have an AMD Athlon XP m 2600 laptop, 512 Mega RAM DDR,
with Lubuntu 11

Thanks in advance
Antonio

[praseodym]

Hi,

please show:

lsusb
lsmod
iwconfig
rfkill list

[Antonjo]

Here is it.

### I need to remove driver to avoid freezing when plugging the stick:

antonio@paris:~/Desktop$ ndiswrapper -l
rsc4usb : driver installed
antonio@paris:~/Desktop$ sudo ndiswrapper -r rsc4usb
[sudo] password for antonio:
antonio@paris:~/Desktop$ lsusb
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0baf:0118 U.S. Robotics U5 802.11g Adapter
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

### Unplug stick and reinstall driver 

antonio@paris:~/Desktop$ sudo ndiswrapper -i ndis/USRob/unzipped_exe/Driver/RSC4USB.inf 
installing rsc4usb ...
forcing parameter EnableRadio from 0 to 1
antonio@paris:~/Desktop$ sudo depmod -a
antonio@paris:~/Desktop$ sudo modprobe ndiswrapper
antonio@paris:~/Desktop$ lsmod >lsmod.txt

Module                  Size  Used by
savage                 35490  1 
drm                   184164  2 savage
parport_pc             32111  0 
ppdev                  12849  0 
vesafb                 13449  1 
snd_via82xx            24685  1 
gameport               15027  1 snd_via82xx
snd_mpu401_uart        13865  1 snd_via82xx
snd_via82xx_modem      18305  0 
snd_ac97_codec        105614  2 snd_via82xx,snd_via82xx_modem
ac97_bus               12642  1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm                80042  3 snd_via82xx,snd_via82xx_modem,snd_ac97_codec
snd_seq_midi           13132  0 
snd_rawmidi            25269  2 snd_mpu401_uart,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event     14475  1 snd_seq_midi
joydev                 17322  0 
snd_seq                51291  2 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer              28659  2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
i2c_viapro             12969  0 
via_ircc               26953  0 
snd_seq_device         14110  3 snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
snd                    55295  11 snd_via82xx,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_via82xx_modem,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
irda                  185091  1 via_ircc
pcmcia                 39671  0 
psmouse                73312  0 
serio_raw              12990  0 
snd_page_alloc         14073  3 snd_via82xx,snd_via82xx_modem,snd_pcm
yenta_socket           27230  0 
soundcore              12600  1 snd
pcmcia_rsrc            18292  1 yenta_socket
crc_ccitt              12595  1 irda
pcmcia_core            21505  3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,pcmcia_rsrc
ndiswrapper           183882  0 
lp                     13349  0 
parport                36746  3 parport_pc,ppdev,lp
cb710_mmc              13380  0 
firewire_ohci          31504  0 
via_rhine              27131  0 
pata_via               13368  2 
cb710                  13734  1 cb710_mmc
firewire_core          56138  1 firewire_ohci
crc_itu_t              12627  1 firewire_core


antonio@paris:~/Desktop$ iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

### Of course there would be wlan0 here with the USB dongle plugged, but just some for moments before freezing. 

antonio@paris:~/Desktop$ rfkill list 
antonio@paris:~/Desktop$ 
### Blank output for rfkill.

Antonio

[praseodym]

Which Windows driver do you use? I would recommend Win2000 or XP. Checks:

ndiswrapper -l
cat /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper.conf
dmesg | grep ndis

[Antonjo]

antonio@paris:~/Desktop$ ndiswrapper -l
rsc4usb : driver installed
antonio@paris:~/Desktop$ cat /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper.conf 
alias usb:v0BAFp0118d*dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip* ndiswrapper
antonio@paris:~/Desktop$ dmesg | grep ndis
[   15.154872] ndiswrapper version 1.56 loaded (smp=yes, preempt=no)
[   15.265536] usbcore: registered new interface driver ndiswrapper
antonio@paris:~/Desktop$

The driver and the .inf are unique. I see that inside there are sections for XP:

[PRISM_A021_XP]    ; Winxp
 AddReg         = PRISM_A021.reg, COMMON_A02.reg, COMMON_NDIS.reg.NT, COMMON.reg
 CopyFiles      = PRISM_DRIVER.copy.XP, PRISM_CCU.copy
 BusType        = 0
 Characteristics= 0x84

[PRISM_A021_XP.Services]
 AddService= "RSC4_A02", 2, PRISM_DRIVER_A02.Service, PRISM_DRIVER.EventLog

[PRISM_A021_XP.CoInstallers]
 CopyFiles      = PRISM_COINSTALL.copy.NT
 AddReg         = PRISM_COINSTALL.reg.NT 
 
etc. etc.

[praseodym]

Kernel 2.6.38 s***s, try this patched ndiswrapper installation:

http://forum.ubuntuusers.de/post/3080287/

You have to remove ndisgtk, too, otherwise ndisrapper will be overwritten by that dependecies.

Uninstallation with all config files via:

sudo modprobe -rf ndiswrapper
sudo apt-get remove --purge ndiswrapper-common ndiswrapper-utils-1.9 ndisgtk
sudo rm /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper.conf
sudo rm -r /etc/ndiswrapper/* 
sudo depmod -a

Install the windows driver via terminal.

[Antonjo]

When compiling I get the usual 'ioctl' error mentioned in the first post.

antonio@paris:~/Desktop/ndiswrapper-1.56_patch_12$ sudo make 
make -C driver
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/antonio/Desktop/ndiswrapper-1.56_patch_12/driver'
make -C /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.38-11-generic M=/home/antonio/Desktop/ndiswrapper-1.56_patch_12/driver
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.38-11-generic'
  CC [M]  /home/antonio/Desktop/ndiswrapper-1.56_patch_12/driver/loader.o
/home/antonio/Desktop/ndiswrapper-1.56_patch_12/driver/loader.c:834:2: error: unknown field ‘ioctl’ specified in initializer
/home/antonio/Desktop/ndiswrapper-1.56_patch_12/driver/loader.c:834:2: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
make[3]: *** [/home/antonio/Desktop/ndiswrapper-1.56_patch_12/driver/loader.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [_module_/home/antonio/Desktop/ndiswrapper-1.56_patch_12/driver] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.38-11-generic'
make[1]: *** [modules] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/antonio/Desktop/ndiswrapper-1.56_patch_12/driver'
make: *** [all] Error 2

Sorry it's very late here in Rome as in Berlin... continue tomorrow, thanks for your experienced help

Antonio

[praseodym]

Searched for the error messages: You need these patches (both links):

http://forum.ubuntuusers.de/topic/da.../#post-2802848

[Antonjo]

Good afternoon praseodym.

Before starting I try to sum up my tasks.

Assuming that:

~/Desktop/ndiswrapper-1.56-2.6.38.patch

contains (http://chakra-project.org/bbs/viewtopic.php?pid=28458):)

--- driver/wrapndis.c   (revision 2728)
+++ driver/wrapndis.c   (revision 2729)
@@ -13,16 +13,16 @@
  *
  */

+#include <linux/inetdevice.h>
+#include <linux/ip.h>
+#include <linux/tcp.h>
+#include <linux/udp.h>
+#include <linux/in.h>
 #include "ndis.h"
 #include "iw_ndis.h"
 #include "pnp.h"
 #include "loader.h"
 #include "wrapndis.h"
-#include <linux/inetdevice.h>
-#include <linux/ip.h>
-#include <linux/tcp.h>
-#include <linux/udp.h>
-#include <linux/in.h>
 #include "wrapper.h"

 /* Functions callable from the NDIS driver */

The terminal commands should be:

# Remove ndiswrapper 
~$ sudo modprobe -rf ndiswrapper
~$ sudo apt-get remove --purge ndiswrapper-common ndiswrapper-utils-1.9 ndisgtk
~$ sudo rm /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper.conf
~$ sudo rm -r /etc/ndiswrapper/* 
~$ sudo depmod -a

# Patch ndiswrapper-1.56.tar
~$ cd Desktop/
~/Desktop$ tar zxvf ndiswrapper-1.56.tar
~/Desktop$ cd ndiswrapper-1.56/
~/Desktop/ndiswrapper-1.56$ patch -Np0 < ../ndiswrapper-1.56-2.6.38.patch

# Build and install
~/Desktop/ndiswrapper-1.56$ make uninstall
~/Desktop/ndiswrapper-1.56$ make
~/Desktop/ndiswrapper-1.56$ sudo make install
~/Desktop/ndiswrapper-1.56$ cd ..


# Set ndiswrapper.ko
~/Desktop$ cd /lib/modules/misc
/lib/modules/misc$ sudo cp ndiswrapper.ko ../2.6.38-5-generic/kernel/ubuntu/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper.ko
/lib/modules/misc$ sudo depmod-a
/lib/modules/misc$ sudo modprobe ndiswrapper


# Assuming inf-driver is ~/Desktop/ndis/USRob/unzipped_exe/Driver/RSC4USB.inf 
cd ~/Desktop/
~/Desktop$ sudo ndiswrapper -i ndis/USRob/unzipped_exe/Driver/RSC4USB.inf 
~/Desktop$ sudo depmod -a
~/Desktop$ sudo modprobe ndiswrapper

This is how I intend things in:
http://forum.ubuntuusers.de/topic/da.../#post-2802848

Actually I do not quite understand if "Set ndiswrapper.ko" code goes after or before "Build and install"


Antonio

[praseodym]

Did you apply all patches from both links? After that you should compile and apply ndiswrapper.ko (copy) to your system.