Kernel Panic on Wireless Connect (Gutsy)

[alan34]

Hi all,

I might be able to help those with a rtl8185 chipset.

My card is a Peak pci wireless card with rtl8185 chipset I also had the kernel panic when I tried to connect to my wireless router, really annoyed as the card worked with Edgy and Fiesty.

The solution is to use the Window drivers and ndiswrapper and blacklist the linux r818x driver.

Get the Window files - should have something,inf and something.sys in the same directory. I got net8185.inf and rtl8185.sys from the cd that came with my card.

In System - Administration - Software Sources make sure there is a tick against the Ubuntu 7.10 cd. Load the cd
(you may have to untick all the other software sources just note which ones are ticked now!!)

In System - Administration - Synaptic Package Manager search for ndiswrapper and install.

In a terminal change directory to where the Window files are then (in my case)

sudo ndiswrapper -i net8185.inf
sudo depmod -a
sudo modprobe ndiswrapper
sudo ndiswrapper -m
sudo ndiswrapper -l
------------You should see something like this

alan@alan-desktop:~$ sudo ndiswrapper -l
[sudo] password for alan:
net8185 : driver installed
device (10EC:8185) present (alternate driver: r8180)

Now to load the driver when you boot

sudo gedit /etc/modules
----------You should see something like this add ndiswrapper at the end of the file

# /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time.
#
# This file contains the names of kernel modules that should be loaded
# at boot time, one per line. Lines beginning with "#" are ignored.

fuse
lp
ndiswrapper


Now we blacklist the linux driver

sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
---------------At the end of the file add

# wireless network card driver
blacklist r8180

Reboot and you should be okay well at least I was. Only re-installed three times to get it to work

Good luck

[manbou]

I'll try that. Also, did you save the *.inf file to desktop or move it to some other directory.

[alan34]

You need both the .sys and .inf in the same directory.

In a terminal

cd

mkdir ndiswraper

Extract your files to ~/ndiswrapper (~ is your home directory)

cd ndiswrapper

ls -l

should look something like this

alan@alan-desktop:~/ndiswrapper$ ls -l
total 296
-rw-r--r-- 1 alan alan 14276 2005-12-09 07:51 net8185.inf
-rw-r--r-- 1 alan alan 282240 2005-10-20 12:05 rtl8185.sys

Then follow the commands in my first post.

There are many Howtos on ndiswrapper should be one in the Ubuntu help file although the one in Gutsy calls for using a package ndisgtk which is a graphical user interface I am sure this is not on the cd so if you are not on the internet at all you are stuck. Heres a link for you


https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wi...er/Ndiswrapper

[manbou]

Thanx. Worked perfectly. Guess drivers were bad. Instructed worked. Ndiswrapper works for airlink model AWLH3028

[Rxallen]

Hello,

I tried to follow your instructions. I get the following...

rxallen@rxallen-ubuntu:~$ sudo ndiswrapper -l
net8185 : invalid Driver!

HP Pavillion zv5000ua
P4(r) 3.00GHz
1128mb RAM
NIC: Realtek RTL8139 Family PCI Fast Ethernet

Duealboot: Ubuntu 7.10 | Win XP Home

Does this mean that I don't have the correct Driver file? I Read in another post that I needed the rtl8185 even if you have an 8139 NIC... Any info would be greatly appreciated!

P.S. Ubuntu: It works well when physical connected to the network, just no wireless. Win XP: Works perfect.

Thanks!

~Rick

[alan34]

Hi It sounds like you have the wrong driver for your card your driver should be for the rtl8139 card not the rtl8185 which is one I have. I got this driver from the Realtek site

http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/...&GetDown=false

use Netrtlx.inf instead of net8185.inf as in my first post.

Or use the one on the cd which came with the card - that would be best its the first one I would try

Cheers

Is this your wireless network card or your "cable" network card?

In a terminal

lspci

should look like this

alan@alan-desktop:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82P965/G965 Memory Controller Hub (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82P965/G965 PCI Express Root Port (rev 02)
00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82562V 10/100 Network Connection (rev 02)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Contoller #4 (rev 02)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 02)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev f2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HH (ICH8DH) LPC Interface Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 RAID bus controller: Intel Corporation 82801 SATA RAID Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G72 [GeForce 7300 LE] (rev a1)
03:02.0 Communication controller: Agere Systems LT WinModem (rev 02)
03:03.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8185 IEEE 802.11a/b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 20)

See the Wireless info at the bottom whatever your output says thats the driver that you need

[Rxallen]

I'm going to try this tonight, Thanks! I'll let you know my results!

[Rxallen]

Ok, tried to install and I get this...



rxallen@rxallen-Ubuntu:~/ndiswrapper$ sudo ndiswrapper -i netrtlx
installing netrtlx ...
couldn't open netrtlx: No such file or directory at /usr/sbin/ndiswrapper-1.9 line 181.


I checked the directory and the file IS in there... I even tried from the terminal by using DIR and it was seen there as well. I looked at line 181 in the ndiswrapper1.9 and it was just the error message code...

I'm lost!

Any More Hints?

~Rick

[alan34]

We need to know what hardware you are using. Is this a wireless network pci card or a "cable" network card in other words there is a cable from your pc to a modem then out through the telephone socket.

The rtl8139 drivers from what I found out today are for a "cable" network card not a wireless one so no surprise it has not worked.

Is your wireless device a pci card or a usb device?

Okay then open up a terminal window and for a pci card type

lspci and enter and post the output

And for a wireless usb device type

lsusb and enter and post the output.

I'll do my best for you but I need to know what card you have before we can get any further. Good luck.

Sometimes getting a wireless connection on a unsupported card is just not worth the hassle for a few pounds/dollars buy one that is supported.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=370108

[Rxallen]

I'm out of town the the weekend so I'll respond on Monday. thanks for you help thus-far. Thanks!