Problems getting Ovislink evo-w301usb stick to work. This uses an Atheros chipset. It covers 802.11n, 11e, and 11b. I am resuscitating an older notebook which works fine except for a broken (physically) Ethernet socket, so I need a wireless connection. I am running Lubuntu Lucid. I have:
1. Successfully set up the wireless usb on two Windows PCs - one win 2000 and one win xp. So at least wusb is working.
2. I have installed ndiswrapper 1.55 and ndisgtk on the notebook from the repos (downloading debs on another linux PC and copying over to notebook)
3. I have copied over the driver files from the Win XP machine to the same directory on the notebook. They are athuw.sys, netathuw.cat, netathuw.inf.
4. Before installing the driver I have run (as root) ndiswrapper -l:
Code:
[root@Galaxy ovislink]# ndiswrapper -l
airforceone : driver installed
airplus : driver installed
bcmwl5 : driver installed
bcmwl5a : driver installed
lstinds : driver installed
net8185 : driver installed
netma521 : driver installed
netr33x : driver installed
prismnic : driver installed
wlannic : driver installed
wlipnds : driver installed
[root@Galaxy ovislink]#
5. Then I ran ndiswrapper -i netathuw.inf
Code:
[root@Galaxy ovislink]# ndiswrapper -i netathuw.inf
installing netathuw ...
[root@Galaxy ovislink]#
6. Then repeated step 4. Netathuw shows up as invalid driver:
Code:
[root@Galaxy ovislink]# ndiswrapper -l
airforceone : driver installed
airplus : driver installed
bcmwl5 : driver installed
bcmwl5a : driver installed
lstinds : driver installed
net8185 : driver installed
netathuw : invalid driver!
netma521 : driver installed
netr33x : driver installed
prismnic : driver installed
wlannic : driver installed
wlipnds : driver installed
[root@Galaxy ovislink]#
7. I also tried installing as above on a PC running PCLinuxOS with the same results.
8. I have also tried copying over the files direct from the install CD. Same results.
Other info:
Unplugging and plugging the wusb gives this in dmesg:
Code:
usb 1-4: USB disconnect, address 6
usb 1-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 7
usb 1-4: New USB device found, idVendor=0cf3, idProduct=9271
usb 1-4: New USB device strings: Mfr=16, Product=32, SerialNumber=48
usb 1-4: Product: USB2.0 WLAN
usb 1-4: Manufacturer: ATHEROS
usb 1-4: SerialNumber: 12345
usb 1-4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
lsusb shows:
Code:
Bus 001 Device 007: ID 0cf3:9271 Atheros Communications, Inc.
uname -rm shows:
Code:
2.6.32-21-generic i686
I have searched this thread and the ID shows up in various posts about TL devices. Nothing on ovislink. Searched ndiswrapper site and your database for 0cf3:9271 but no joy. Done all the usual searches on Google but nothing helpful turned up.
Can you help?
EDIT: I found 2 other driver files on the windows CD that were NOT the ones used in my previous windows installs. But thought I might as well try them anyway. The files are netathur.inf and athur.sys. I stuck these in the Lubuntu install, unistalled the netathuw driver and installed netathur.inf. This time it got as far as showing it's presence:
Code:
[root@Galaxy ovislink]# ndiswrapper -l
airforceone : driver installed
airplus : driver installed
bcmwl5 : driver installed
bcmwl5a : driver installed
lstinds : driver installed
net8185 : driver installed
netathur : driver installed
device (0CF3:9271) present
netma521 : driver installed
netr33x : driver installed
prismnic : driver installed
wlannic : driver installed
wlipnds : driver installed
Looked promising but there is still an error:
Code:
[root@Galaxy ovislink]# tail /var/log/messages
Aug 24 16:15:00 Galaxy klogd: ndiswrapper (load_sys_files:206): couldn't prepare driver 'netathur'
Aug 24 16:15:00 Galaxy klogd: ndiswrapper (load_wrap_driver:108): couldn't load driver netathur; check system log for messages from 'loadndisdriver'
Aug 24 16:15:00 Galaxy klogd: usbcore: registered new interface driver ndiswrapper
also wlan0 doesn't show up in network list - just my two ethernet cards:
Code:
root@Galaxy ovislink]# lshw -C Network
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 01
serial: 00:19:66:05:55:b3
size: 100MB/s
capacity: 1GB/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm vpd msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=full ip=192.168.1.2 latency=0 link=yes module=r8169 multicast=yes port=MII speed=100MB/s
*-network DISABLED
description: Ethernet interface
physical id: 1
logical name: vboxnet0
serial: 0a:00:27:00:00:00
capabilities: ethernet physical
configuration: broadcast=yes multicast=yes
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