Comprehensive ndiswrapper troubleshooting guide

[wildmanne39]

Hi, you will most likely need to use ndiswrapper.

You should ask a staff member to move your thread here
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=885847
This person is great with ndiswrapper.
Thank you

[kurt18947]

Too bad. If your adapter were a TEW-649UB, it'd be plug & play. I'm using one right now. My adapter uses a RealTek RTL8192SU chipset, the TEW-648UB uses a RealTek RTL8188SU according to http://www.wikidevi.com/wiki/TRENDnet_TEW-648UB I've learned to also check with model # and version. Manufacturers have been know to use one chipset in widget abc v1 and a different chipset in widget abc v2.

Hmmm, I just checked Realtek's web site. They offer a Linux driver for kernel 2.6.37 and earlier. Does that infer that this chipset is supported OOB in kernel 2.6.38 and later?
http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/...Downloads=true

[pytheas22]

OldschoolVgamer: could you please post the output of these commands when the adapter is plugged in:

lsusb
lshw -C Network
uname -a

That will tell us exactly what the chipset is, plus some other useful information. It's better to determine the chipset this way than based on the manufacturer's name of the device, since as noted above the manufacturers sometimes sell devices with totally different chipsets under near-identical names--and as far as Linux is concerned the only thing that matters it the chipset.

Once we know which chipset you have we can either try to find a native Linux driver for it, or use a Windows driver in conjunction with ndiswrapper.

[flash63]

Hello,
I have put together some packages for latest Realtek drivers and installation using DKMS. Maybe someone can use it.

* rtl8712u (modul 8712u) for Ubuntu 10.04/11.04 (DKMS)
* rtl8192cu for Ubuntu 10.04/11.04/11.10 (DKMS)
* rtl8192ce for Ubuntu 10.04/10.10 (DKMS)
* rtl8192de/ce/se Combo package for a single installation (Ubuntu 11.10)

[pytheas22]

flash63: that's great, thanks. I'm sure this will make life much easier for people who need those to compile those drivers.

[OldschoolVgamer]

OldschoolVgamer: could you please post the output of these commands when the adapter is plugged in:

lsusb
lshw -C Network
uname -a

That will tell us exactly what the chipset is, plus some other useful information. It's better to determine the chipset this way than based on the manufacturer's name of the device, since as noted above the manufacturers sometimes sell devices with totally different chipsets under near-identical names--and as far as Linux is concerned the only thing that matters it the chipset.

Once we know which chipset you have we can either try to find a native Linux driver for it, or use a Windows driver in conjunction with ndiswrapper.

I take it that you meant using the gnome-terminal. I used that.

lsusb

Bus 009 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 008 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 007 Device 002: ID 045e:0040 Microsoft Corp. Wheel Mouse Optical
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 148f:3573 Ralink Technology, Corp. 
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

lshw -C Network

WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
  *-network               
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller
       vendor: Marvell Technology Group Ltd.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:06:00.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: 12
       serial: 48:5b:39:1c:07:27
       capacity: 1Gbit/s
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: bus_master cap_list rom ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=sky2 driverversion=1.28 firmware=N/A latency=0 multicast=yes port=twisted pair
       resources: irq:67 memory:fbdfc000-fbdfffff ioport:d800(size=256) memory:fbdc0000-fbddffff
  *-network
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller
       vendor: Marvell Technology Group Ltd.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:05:00.0
       logical name: eth1
       version: 12
       serial: 48:5b:39:1c:01:cd
       capacity: 1Gbit/s
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: bus_master cap_list rom ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=sky2 driverversion=1.28 firmware=N/A latency=0 multicast=yes port=twisted pair
       resources: irq:68 memory:fbcfc000-fbcfffff ioport:c800(size=256) memory:fbcc0000-fbcdffff
WARNING: output may be incomplete or inaccurate, you should run this program as super-user.

uname -a

Linux ubuntu 2.6.38-11-generic #50-Ubuntu SMP Mon Sep 12 21:17:25 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

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[allday322]

Does the robert wolverton name ring a bell?

[praseodym]

@OldschoolVgamer:

Please show additionally:

lsmod
iwconfig
rfkill list

[OldschoolVgamer]

@OldschoolVgamer:

Please show additionally:

lsmod
iwconfig
rfkill list

lsmod

Module                  Size  Used by
parport_pc             36959  0 
ppdev                  17113  0 
snd_hda_codec_hdmi     28167  4 
binfmt_misc            17565  1 
snd_hda_codec_realtek   336771  1 
snd_hda_intel          33176  2 
snd_hda_codec         103804  3 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep              13604  1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm                96391  3 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
snd_seq_midi           13324  0 
nouveau               682322  2 
snd_rawmidi            30486  1 snd_seq_midi
ttm                    76664  1 nouveau
snd_seq_midi_event     14899  1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq                61621  2 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer              29602  2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device         14462  3 snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
drm_kms_helper         42136  1 nouveau
i7core_edac            27903  0 
snd                    67382  14 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_rawmidi,snd_pcm,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
asus_atk0110           17976  0 
drm                   227534  4 nouveau,ttm,drm_kms_helper
i2c_algo_bit           13400  1 nouveau
video                  19438  1 nouveau
edac_core              53845  1 i7core_edac
soundcore              12680  1 snd
snd_page_alloc         18529  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
lp                     17825  0 
parport                46458  3 parport_pc,ppdev,lp
usbhid                 46956  0 
hid                    91020  1 usbhid
ahci                   25951  1 
libahci                26642  1 ahci
firewire_ohci          40370  0 
firewire_core          62646  1 firewire_ohci
sky2                   58509  0 
crc_itu_t              12707  1 firewire_core
xhci_hcd               77643  0

iwconfig

lo        no wireless extensions.
eth0      no wireless extensions.
eth1      no wireless extensions.

rfkill list

I typed this one and it didn't do anything

[praseodym]

Try to add the device ID to the driver rt2800usb. This is one line, you better copy/paste it:

echo 'install rt2800usb modprobe --ignore-install rt2800usb ; /bin/echo "148f 3573" > /sys/bus/usb/drivers/rt2800usb/new_id' | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/rt2800usb.conf

Load the driver:

sudo modprobe -v rt2800usb

and replug the stick. Check after that:

iwconfig
sudo iwlist scan
dmesg | grep rt2