[Bug 654262] New: US Robotics wlan card: ndiswrapper does not find manufacturer section
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=654262 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=654262#c0 Summary: US Robotics wlan card: ndiswrapper does not find manufacturer section Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.3 Version: Final Platform: i686 OS/Version: openSUSE 11.3 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Basesystem AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: estellnb@gmail.com QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 SUSE/3.6.12-0.7.1 Firefox/3.6.12
ndiswrapper -i AUTORUN.INF couldn't find SourceDisksFiles section - continuing anyway... installing autorun ... couldn't get manufacturer section - installation may be incomplete
ndiswrapper -i ./Software/NPF/DE/AUTORUN.INF driver autorun is already installed
There are no more autorun.infs. Without the manufacturer section the wlan pcmcia card can not be recognized by the system (not displayed by Yast). According to US-robotics ndiswrapper was the only way to make use of this card. Is there any way to add the manufacturers section manually? Reproducible: Always -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=654262 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=654262#c2 Elmar Stellnberger <estellnb@gmail.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO InfoProvider| |estellnb@gmail.com --- Comment #2 from Elmar Stellnberger <estellnb@gmail.com> 2010-12-14 17:53:06 UTC --- If it can`t read the manufacturers section this does not appear to be a bug that needs to be fatal to me. Why can I not simply enter the manufacturer section on my own? Why can I not attach the successfully loaded driver to the appropriate physical device? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=654262 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=654262#c3 Elmar Stellnberger <estellnb@gmail.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Component|Basesystem |Network Version|Final |Milestone 5 of 6 AssignedTo|vbotka@novell.com |bnc-team-screening@forge.pr | |ovo.novell.com Product|openSUSE 11.3 |openSUSE 11.4 Target Milestone|--- |Milestone 6 of 6 --- Comment #3 from Elmar Stellnberger <estellnb@gmail.com> 2011-01-29 20:21:43 UTC --- The error message for trying to configure this card via ndiswrapper is exactly the same for openSUSE 11.4 MS 6. However I have found out that USR cards use to be supported by the Linux-wlan-ng driver which however does not seem to be supported bz os11.4/ms6: # lspcmcia Socket 0 Bridge: [yenta_cardbus] (bus ID: 0000:02:04.0) CardBus card -- see "lspci" for more information Socket 1 Bridge: [yenta_cardbus] (bus ID: 0000:02:04.1) # lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82845 845 [Brookdale] Chipset Host Bridge (rev 04) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82845 845 [Brookdale] Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 04) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM USB Controller #1 (rev 02) 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM USB Controller #2 (rev 02) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 42) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801CAM ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 02) 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801CAM IDE U100 Controller (rev 02) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM SMBus Controller (rev 02) 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02) 00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 02) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 420 Go] (rev a3) 02:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6306/7/8 [Fire II(M)] IEEE 1394 OHCI Controller (rev 46) 02:01.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) 02:04.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ6933/711E1 CardBus/SmartCardBus Controller (rev 01) 02:04.1 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ6933/711E1 CardBus/SmartCardBus Controller (rev 01) 02:06.0 System peripheral: Toshiba America Info Systems TC6371AF SmartMedia Controller (rev 02) 03:00.0 Network controller: Texas Instruments ACX 111 54Mbps Wireless Interface linux:/lib/modules/2.6.37-20-default/kernel/drivers/net/wireless # ls *ng* ls: cannot access *ng*: No such file or directory # modprobe linux-wlan-ng FATAL: Module linux_wlan_ng not found. # modprobe Linux-wlan-ng FATAL: Module Linux_wlan_ng not found. Why is this device driver not provided by openSUSE 11.4/MS6? (This card is an USR5410.) -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=654262 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=654262#c4 Vladimir Botka <vbotka@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |vbotka@novell.com --- Comment #4 from Vladimir Botka <vbotka@novell.com> 2011-01-31 20:55:34 UTC --- Would it be possible to post the output of the command "lspci -s3:0 -vn" ? It would be good to know the PCIID of the device [1] and check if it is supported [2]. [1] 03:00.0 Network controller: Texas Instruments ACX 111 54Mbps Wireless Interface [2] http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Devices/PCMCIA -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=654262 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=654262#c5 Elmar Stellnberger <estellnb@gmail.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW InfoProvider|estellnb@gmail.com | --- Comment #5 from Elmar Stellnberger <estellnb@gmail.com> 2011-01-31 21:14:20 UTC ---
lspci -s3:0 -vn 03:00.0 0280: 104c:9066 Subsystem: 010e:16ec Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 10 Memory at 4c020000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=8K] Memory at 4c000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=654262 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=654262#c6 Vladimir Botka <vbotka@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO InfoProvider| |estellnb@gmail.com --- Comment #6 from Vladimir Botka <vbotka@novell.com> 2011-01-31 21:58:34 UTC --- (In reply to comment #5)
03:00.0 0280: 104c:9066
Unfortunately, this device is not listed as supported. But the list is not complete. Would it be possible to take a look if the driver is not loaded by chance "hwinfo --wlan" ? If not, this seems like wontfix for me. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=654262 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=654262#c7 --- Comment #7 from Elmar Stellnberger <estellnb@gmail.com> 2011-01-31 22:22:21 UTC --- I am afraid but 'hwinfo --wlan' does not show anything (driver not loaded by chance). Can I not try to modprobe the appropriate driver manually? If that should not help what is about ndiswrapper? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=654262 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=654262#c8 Elmar Stellnberger <estellnb@gmail.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW InfoProvider|estellnb@gmail.com | --- Comment #8 from Elmar Stellnberger <estellnb@gmail.com> 2011-01-31 22:23:47 UTC --- . -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=654262 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=654262#c9 --- Comment #9 from Vladimir Botka <vbotka@novell.com> 2011-02-01 08:56:50 UTC --- (In reply to comment #7)
Can I not try to modprobe the appropriate driver manually? You can try and load the "orinoco", but maybe you'll have to put some firmware into the /lib/firmware [1]. Hint: "modinfo orinoco"
If that should not help what is about ndiswrapper? Yes, this the other possibility. But, to stay effective maybe it would be better to consider some of the native supported usb devices [2].
[1] firmware: symbol_sp24t_sec_fw firmware: symbol_sp24t_prim_fw firmware: prism_ap_fw.bin firmware: prism_sta_fw.bin [2] http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Devices/USB -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=654262 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=654262#c10 --- Comment #10 from Elmar Stellnberger <estellnb@gmail.com> 2011-03-16 21:12:48 UTC --- Well I have downloaded orinoco-fwutils-0.3 from SourceForge now, run the get_ezusb_fw, get_prism_ap_fw and get_symbol_fw scripts and copied the resulting files (symbol_sp24t_prim_fw, symbol_sp24t_sec_fw, orinoco_ezusb_fw, t1010400.hex and tf020004.hex) into /lib/firmware and then modprobed orinoco_cs but no device showed therupon up by ifconfig or hwconfig --wlan. I doubt that the provided firmwares can match a 'Texas Instruments' card as the USR is. Perhaps the source sourceforge are not up to date either because the kernel module as found in /usr/src/linux seems to be much newer. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=654262 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=654262#c11 --- Comment #11 from Elmar Stellnberger <estellnb@gmail.com> 2011-03-17 00:20:04 UTC --- The windows driver seems to work with linuxant. If I perform setup.exe with wine this copies all the required files to ~/.wine/drive_c. iwlist eth2 scanning and iwconfig eth2 essid tc work. However wpa_supplicant fails because the -D ndis option does not seem to be currently compiled in with openSuSE. Only -D ndiswrapper is available which however does not work with linuxant (weird string is assumed for essid like f2\x0D\xB71X\xA3Z%]\x05\...). -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=654262 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=654262#c12 --- Comment #12 from Elmar Stellnberger <estellnb@gmail.com> 2011-03-17 00:46:17 UTC --- Tried again with ndiswrapper on the .inf created by the wine setup. That worked quite well at first; however later on it turned out to be completely unusable.
ndiswrapper -i USR11G.inf installing usr11g ... ndiswrapper -l usr11g : driver installed device (104C:9066) present depmod -a modprobe ndiswrapper WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper, it will be ignored in a future release. mv /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper.conf rmmod ndiswrapper modprobe ndiswrapper hwinfo --wlan 17: PCI 700.0: 0282 WLAN controller [Created at pci.318] Unique ID: y9sn.ZRPHQ6Qg8wC Parent ID: Mqmt.rh2TMKmQfvD SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:02:04.1/0000:07:00.0 SysFS BusID: 0000:07:00.0 Hardware Class: network Model: "Texas Instruments ACX 111 54Mbps Wireless Interface" Vendor: pci 0x104c "Texas Instruments" Device: pci 0x9066 "ACX 111 54Mbps Wireless Interface" SubVendor: pci 0x010e SubDevice: pci 0x16ec Driver: "ndiswrapper" Driver Modules: "ndiswrapper", "ndiswrapper" Device File: wlan0 Features: WLAN Memory Range: 0x50020000-0x50021fff (rw,non-prefetchable) Memory Range: 0x50000000-0x5001ffff (rw,non-prefetchable) IRQ: 10 (no events) HW Address: 00:c0:49:d6:dc:b2 Link detected: no WLAN channels: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 WLAN frequencies: 2.412 2.417 2.422 2.427 2.432 2.437 2.442 2.447 2.452 2.457 2.462 2.467 2.472 2.484 WLAN bitrates: 6 9 12 18 22 24 36 48 54 WLAN encryption modes: WEP40 WEP104 WLAN authentication modes: open sharedkey Module Alias: "pci:v0000104Cd00009066sv0000010Esd000016ECbc02sc80i00" Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown Attached to: #15 (CardBus bridge)
iwlist wlan0 scanning wlan0 Scan completed : Cell 01 - Address: 00:1F:5B:88:8F:40 ESSID:"TC" Protocol:IEEE 802.11FH Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz (Channel 1) Quality:100/100 Signal level:84/154 Noise level:160/154 Encryption key:on Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s 9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s Extra:bcn_int=100 Extra:atim=0
This works quite fine although only linuxant can make use of the 54Mbit/s mode. However this does not work:
wpa_supplicant -iwlan0 -D ndiswrapper -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf ioctl[SIOCSIWPMKSA]: Invalid argument ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument ^CCTRL-EVENT-TERMINATING - signal 2 received
kwifimanager does also show an almost unreachable access point while linuxant showed 100% connection quality at the same distance.
iwconfig wlan0 essid tc # does also have no effect (iwconfig eth2 essid tc worked with linuxant) iwconfig wlan0 ap 01:80:c2:00:00:03 # no effect either (worked via wpa_suppl under linuxant) iwconfig wlan0 # looks the following after both iwconfigs wlan0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:off/any Mode:Managed Channel:0 Access Point: Not-Associated Bit Rate:1 Mb/s Tx-Power:0 dBm Sensitivity=0/3 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:off Power Management:off Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0 Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=654262 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=654262#c13 --- Comment #13 from Elmar Stellnberger <estellnb@gmail.com> 2011-03-17 00:50:00 UTC --- I don`t know if the chance existed to extract the firmware for use with orinoco out of any of the files used with linuxant (USR11G.SYS USR11G.inf tiacx111.bin). However I would give it little chance since ndiswrapper could not suffice with the .sys, only, either. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=654262 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=654262#c14 --- Comment #14 from Elmar Stellnberger <estellnb@gmail.com> 2011-03-17 01:01:25 UTC --- Strange, my card is listed as supported by ndiswrapper: US Robotics USR805410:mine, (USR805411, USR805417); see: http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/ndiswrapper/index.php?title=Category:P.... Perhaps I should ask or report this upstreams. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=654262 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=654262#c15 --- Comment #15 from Elmar Stellnberger <estellnb@gmail.com> 2011-03-17 01:03:35 UTC --- I have seen some descriptions of dd-extracting the firmware out of .sys files. Good advice is precious nonetheless on how to find the beginning. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=654262 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=654262#c16 zj jia <zjjia@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |CLOSED CC| |zjjia@novell.com Resolution| |UPSTREAM --- Comment #16 from zj jia <zjjia@novell.com> 2011-08-16 08:20:14 UTC --- According to comment #14, so close it. Feel free to reopen it. Thanks. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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