DWA-131 Ver b Frm/w 2.00

[chili555]

Everything seemed to go well until I entered the last code

 sudo modprobe ndiswrapper

then it returned "FATAL: Module ndiswrapper not found."

Please try:

sudo apt-get install ndiswrapper-dkms
sudo apt-get install --reinstall ndiswrapper-common ndiswrapper-utils-1.9
sudo modprobe ndiswrapper

Don't make me get out the big hammer!!

[revelias]

Please try:

sudo apt-get install ndiswrapper-dkms
sudo apt-get install --reinstall ndiswrapper-common ndiswrapper-utils-1.9
sudo modprobe ndiswrapper

Don't make me get out the big hammer!!

I ran the codes without errors but it did not get the device running.

[chili555]

Let's see if there are any informative messages:

ndiswrapper -l

That's a lower-case L for 'list.'

dmesg | grep ndis

The pipe symbol | is on the right side of my US keyboard on the same key with \.

[revelias]

Let's see if there are any informative messages:

ndiswrapper -l

That's a lower-case L for 'list.'

dmesg | grep ndis

The pipe symbol | is on the right side of my US keyboard on the same key with \.

I ran the codes

ndiswrapper -l

returned "netrtwlanu : driver installed" while

dmesg | grep ndis

didn't return anything.

[chili555]

What..?? Was the device inserted at the time? If so, and the .inf file was correct for the device, it ought to have also returned 'device present.' Check:

lsusb

Does the device show up as before?

Device 003: ID 2001:330d D-Link Corp.

Now check the .inf file:

less Desktop/xp/WinXP/netrtwlanu.inf   <--or WinX64 if yours is a 64-bit system

Do you see the parts I quoted?

%DLink.DeviceDesc% = RTL8192cu.ndi, USB\VID_2001&PID_330D
;;************************************************ ****************************
;; IDs for X64
;;************************************************ ****************************

[DLink.NTamd64]

%DLink.DeviceDesc% = RTL8192cu.ndi, USB\VID_2001&PID_330D

Get out of 'less' with q.

Perhaps the module needs to be loaded first:

sudo modprobe ndiswrapper
ndiswrapper -l
dmesg | grep ndis

This case gets more interesting by the moment!

[revelias]

What..?? Was the device inserted at the time? If so, and the .inf file was correct for the device, it ought to have also returned 'device present.' Check:

lsusb

Does the device show up as before?Now check the .inf file:

less Desktop/xp/WinXP/netrtwlanu.inf   <--or WinX64 if yours is a 64-bit system

Do you see the parts I quoted?Get out of 'less' with q.

Perhaps the module needs to be loaded first:

sudo modprobe ndiswrapper
ndiswrapper -l
dmesg | grep ndis

This case gets more interesting by the moment!

OK I re-ran the codes with the device in and got: driver installed device (2001:330D) present for "ndiswrapper -l" and nothing returned for the second code.

[chili555]

OK I re-ran the codes with the device in

Excellent.

Please do:

sudo su
echo ndiswrapper >> /etc/modules
exit

Reboot so we have a clean slate. Then run:

iwconfig > revelias.txt
dmesg  >> revelias.txt

Find the text file revelias.txt in your user directory and paste it here: http://paste.ubuntu.com/

Give us the link so we can study the messages and try to see what's going wrong.

[revelias]

Excellent.

Please do:

sudo su
echo ndiswrapper >> /etc/modules
exit

Reboot so we have a clean slate. Then run:

iwconfig > revelias.txt
dmesg  >> revelias.txt

Find the text file revelias.txt in your user directory and paste it here: http://paste.ubuntu.com/

Give us the link so we can study the messages and try to see what's going wrong.

I ran

sudo su
echo ndiswrapper >> /etc/modules
exit

and rebooted with the device in which resulted in kernal panic with the gui crashing. I then rebooted without the device and was able to log in but once i plugged the device in it crashed the system.

Here is the link to the output:
http://paste.ubuntu.com/5582795/

[chili555]

Yikes! Any clues here?

cat /var/log/syslog | grep ndis | tail -n20

If there are few or no lines of output, look here:

cat /var/log/syslog.1 | grep ndis | tail -n20

[revelias]

That code returned:

Mar 3 11:11:45 daniel-Presario-F700-GR970UA-ABA kernel: [ 18.278590] ndiswrapper version 1.57 loaded (smp=yes, preempt=no)
Mar 3 11:11:45 daniel-Presario-F700-GR970UA-ABA kernel: [ 18.355963] usbcore: registered new interface driver ndiswrapper
Mar 3 11:13:03 daniel-Presario-F700-GR970UA-ABA kernel: [ 18.280781] ndiswrapper version 1.57 loaded (smp=yes, preempt=no)
Mar 3 11:13:03 daniel-Presario-F700-GR970UA-ABA kernel: [ 18.440984] usbcore: registered new interface driver ndiswrapper
Mar 3 11:15:57 daniel-Presario-F700-GR970UA-ABA kernel: [ 19.125667] ndiswrapper version 1.57 loaded (smp=yes, preempt=no)
Mar 3 11:15:57 daniel-Presario-F700-GR970UA-ABA kernel: [ 19.319255] usbcore: registered new interface driver ndiswrapper