Alfa AWUS036H, rtl8187 and ndiswrapper

I have a 64 bit system. I try ndiswrapper with WinXp and WinVista 64 bit driver for my rtl8187 chipset and i obtained a kernel panic.
Also i try ndiswrapper with Win7 64bit driver that works in my case only one time (i don't know why). Some information about dmesg
[ 464.544974] cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain
[ 464.720379] usb 6-1.1: reset high-speed USB device number 3 using ehci_hcd
[ 510.408151] Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
[ 510.409385] ndiswrapper version 1.57 loaded (smp=yes, preempt=yes)
[ 510.485512] usb 6-1.1: reset high-speed USB device number 3 using ehci_hcd
[ 510.571498] ndiswrapper (import:232): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisMRegisterMiniportDriver'
[ 510.571503] ndiswrapper (import:232): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisMFreePort'
[ 510.571507] ndiswrapper (import:232): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisMIndicateReceiveNetBufferLists'
[ 510.571511] ndiswrapper (import:232): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisMDeregisterMiniportDriver'
[ 510.571515] ndiswrapper (import:232): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisAllocateMdl'
[ 510.571518] ndiswrapper (import:232): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisFreeNetBufferListPool'
[ 510.571522] ndiswrapper (import:232): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisAllocateNetBufferListPool'
[ 510.571526] ndiswrapper (import:232): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisFreeNetBufferList'
[ 510.571530] ndiswrapper (import:232): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisFreeMdl'
[ 510.571533] ndiswrapper (import:232): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisAllocateNetBufferAndNetBufferList'
[ 510.571537] ndiswrapper (import:232): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisMIndicateStatusEx'
[ 510.571548] ndiswrapper (import:232): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisMSetMiniportAttributes'
[ 510.571553] ndiswrapper (import:232): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisMOidRequestComplete'
[ 510.571557] ndiswrapper (import:232): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisOpenConfigurationEx'
[ 510.571564] ndiswrapper (import:232): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisMNetPnPEvent'
[ 510.571574] ndiswrapper (import:232): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisAllocateIoWorkItem'
[ 510.571577] ndiswrapper (import:232): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisFreeIoWorkItem'
[ 510.571581] ndiswrapper (import:232): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisQueueIoWorkItem'
[ 510.571585] ndiswrapper (import:232): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisAllocateMemoryWithTagPriority'
[ 510.571590] ndiswrapper (import:232): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisMAllocatePort'
[ 510.571594] ndiswrapper (import:232): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisMSendNetBufferListsComplete'
[ 510.571597] ndiswrapper (import:232): unknown symbol: WDFLDR.SYS:'WdfVersionBind'
[ 510.571600] ndiswrapper (import:232): unknown symbol: WDFLDR.SYS:'WdfVersionBindClass'
[ 510.571604] ndiswrapper (import:232): unknown symbol: WDFLDR.SYS:'WdfVersionUnbindClass'
[ 510.571607] ndiswrapper (import:232): unknown symbol: WDFLDR.SYS:'WdfVersionUnbind'
[ 510.571609] ndiswrapper (load_sys_files:199): couldn't prepare driver 'netrtuw'
[ 510.571823] ndiswrapper (load_wrap_driver:102): couldn't load driver netrtuw; check system log for messages from 'loadndisdriver'
[ 510.571847] usbcore: registered new interface driver ndiswrapper
I need to try ndiswrapper because i have a high number of "invalid misc" package that limit my download bandwith to 50kb/s.
I notice that each time i "rmmod rtl8187" and then "modprobe rtl8187" the download bandwith grows up to 600-700 kb/s and the "invalid misc" package are few. After 10-15 minutes the number of "invalid misc package" increase every second and the bandwith return to 50kb/s.
I already try to set different values for rts and frag with iwconfig but i can't resolve this issue.
Thanks in advance to anyone who want to help me.

thank you for reply but until now i am unknown what i have to do? can you help me please. i insert pic which i have problem.

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New kernel26 and ndiswrapper [UNSOLVED -- Closed --]

I noticed that the latest kernel broke my ndiswrapper, so I decided to try to use my laptop without it using only the drivers.
Since I'm posting here, it is obvious I'm not succeeding
I'm very good with computers but the wifi thing always bites me in the bum for some reason ...
Here is what I did, can anyone point me in the right direction from here?
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iphitus wrote:
So nobody has filed a bug?
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edit: updated info
Last edited by TigTex (2010-01-25 23:21:03)

bump, after 25 days?
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Last edited by toketin (2012-11-10 22:23:46)

Hi Marco,
Same issues here.. Rtl8187 is driving me mad
Did you make any progress on Arch x86_64 and ndiswrapper?
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-- Logs begin at Fri 2013-10-11 14:17:23 CDT, end at Sun 2013-10-13 12:53:10 CDT. --
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-- Subject: Unit netctl@enp0s29f7u8\x2dZorakistan.service has begun with start-up
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-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
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-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
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As to your question about which packages you'll need beyond those in base and base-devel - that depends on what you want on your system... no one can answer that but you!
Welcome to Arch.
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- Reboot to test the new kernel.
It seems the wifi profile doesn't start. Ok, let's see...
My wifi profile works OK with stock Arch kernel, but after the installation of kernel26 beyond the wpa socket directory (/var/run/wpa_supplicant) has dissapeared.
No problem, created it again and restart the network. Still no luck.
ndiswrapper-beyond seems to work fine:
$ ndiswrapper -l
bcmwl5 driver installed, hardware present
dmesg output:
ndiswrapper version 1.16 loaded (preempt=yes,smp=yes)
ndiswrapper: driver bcmwl5 (Broadcom,05/26/2005, 3.120.27.0) loaded
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:06:02.0[A] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 22
ndiswrapper: using irq 22
wlan0: vendor: ''
wlan0: ndiswrapper ethernet device 00:14:a5:4e:11:27 using driver bcmwl5, 14E4:4319.5.conf
wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP; TKIP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK; AES/CCMP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK
The wpa_supplicant configuration works fine with stock kernel:
$ cat /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ap_scan=1
network={
ssid="myssid"
proto=RSN
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
pairwise=TKIP
group=TKIP
#psk="blah"
psk=encrypted blah
I have tried adding ndiswrapper to the modules array in /etc/rc.conf, the network doesn't start.
Later I have changed the file /etc/mkinitramfs.conf and generated a new initramfs-beyond.img, trying to enable ndiswrapper here and/or USB subsystem support, but the result was the same.
The *ONLY* solution I have found is booting the system with the beyond kernel, wait to the network init script to fail (it seems a dhcp timeout), log into the system and execute the following:
# killall wpa_supplicant
# /etc/rc.d/network restart
Any idea about why I have to kill wpa_supplicant to get the wifi working with it? As I said, this problem does't exist with the stock kernel, and I don't see any errors reported by wpa_supplicant.
Thanks in advance!
Regards,
miausX

Thanks for your reply, Phrodo_00.
I think it is using the correct ndiswrapper module (beyond).
Looking at the modinfo output:
$ modinfo ndiswrapper
filename: /lib/modules/2.6.16-beyond/misc/ndiswrapper.ko
license: GPL
version: 1.16
description: NDIS wrapper driver
Maybe this problem is related to the execution order of the commands (modprobe ndiswrapper, wpa_supplicant, dhcpcd) during boot.
Everything works fine after killing wpa_supplicant and restarting the network, the ndiswrapper module is loaded, wpa_suplicant is running as a daemon, etc.
$ ps -ef | grep wpa
root 4262 1 0 10:12 ? 00:00:00 wpa_supplicant -wB -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -D wext
$ ps -ef | grep dhcp
root 4274 1 0 10:12 ? 00:00:00 dhcpcd -t 30 -h portatil wlan0
$ lsmod | grep ndis
ndiswrapper 145004 0
usbcore 97696 6 ndiswrapper,hci_usb,usbhid,ohci_hcd,ehci_hcd
Regards,
miausX.

Ndiswrapper.ko wrong version/folder [solved]

I had this same problem on my last installation and it worked itself out while i was fiddling. i cannot for the life of me repeat whatever caused it to work...I broke my arch and had to re-install using the same iso (0.7.1).
the ndiswrapper version is 1.26
the modules that come with my default installation are all under /lib/modules/2.6.15-ARCH whilst the ndiswrapper.ko is being installed under /lib/modules/2.6.18-ARCH. because of this i get FATAL: module not found when modprobeing. simply moving the module to the proper directory does not work due to versioning complaints (is it possible to force the module, and if so should i?).
for at least the next 2 weeks, if i cant resolve this, i wont be able to run pacman -Syu on that machine. there is no way for me to connect to the internet other than my wireless so let me just say that command won't be helpful to me right now
my school is all wireless and my apartment only allows one laptop on their internet service per home and well...mine isn't it. i know this problem can be solved without updates as it was done before. Thanks!
[solution]
i guess the ndiswrapper in /extra is newer than my version of arch, i just installed the wrapper from source i managed to grab. the package was nicely in that only a make install command was required. no special config files or options. only problem with this method, i imagine, is that now pacman has no info about the installation and will have to be manually maintained in the future...assuming of course an update doesn't fix the original problem.
[/solution]

The ndiswrapper in extra is indeed built for the 2.6.18 kernel as you have discovered.
Using abs/ makepkg you could build your own ndiswrapper package for the 2.6.15 kernel, but there is an easier way.
Use tpowa's new base iso along with the binaries from extra for ndiswrapper and ndiswrapper-utils.
The link points to a base iso with kernel 2.6.18 and packages updated to the 19-11 stand.

Can't update ndiswrapper

From a couple of days my system can't update because of ndiswrapper:
[root@archtoshiba ~]# pacman -Syu
:: Sincronizzazione dei database in corso...
core è aggiornato
extra è aggiornato
community è aggiornato
:: Aggiornamento del sistema in corso...
:: Vuoi sostituire ndiswrapper-utils con community/ndiswrapper? [S/n] s
risoluzione delle dipendenze in corso...
ricerca dei conflitti in corso...
errore: impossibile eseguire l'operazione richiesta (impossibile soddisfare le dipendenze)
:: ndiswrapper-lts: richiede ndiswrapper-utils=1.56
ndiswrapper-utils goes in conflict with ndiswrapper and pacman asks me to substitute it. When I answer yes, it shows me an error: ndiswrapper requires ndiswrapper-lts, so I can't go forward...
Yesterday I removed ndiswrapper-utils and ndiswrapper-lts, then installed the new ndiswrapper, but after reboot the system couldn't load.
So, I booted with kernel26-lts-fallback and rollback to ndiswrapper-utils and ndiswrapper-lts. The system now works, but I can't update it.
What should I do?
Thanks...

karol wrote:
"ndiswrapper requires ndiswrapper-lts" - are you sure? http://www.archlinux.org/packages/commu … iswrapper/
Run
LC_ALL=C <command>
to get output in English.
If you enabled C locale, it should work.
[root@archtoshiba ~]# LC_ALL=C pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core is up to date
extra is up to date
community is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
:: Replace ndiswrapper-utils with community/ndiswrapper? [Y/n] y
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: ndiswrapper-lts: requires ndiswrapper-utils=1.56
Sorry, lts requires utils...
karol wrote:Edit: Ahhh, somebody put ndiswrapper back in community. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=49709
So? What is the point?
karol wrote:Again, what happens if you remove the AUR packages and install only the package from [community]?
Ehm, I don't understand.
I've not installed ndiswrapper-utils and ndiswrapper-lts from AUR (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=49935 & https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=49713).
edit: Neither ndiswrapper (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=49709)...
Last edited by digitalone (2011-08-19 13:12:26)

Ndiswrapper, dhcp, internet headaches.

I recently got a nintendo wii (!, woohoo) and it didn't immediately work with my wireless internet. I read up on it and was told to upgrade & reset my router. I did it, and now the wii works, and all my Windows computers work with the net perfectly as well.
Nevertheless, after this router upgrade, Arch's internet just won't work. I use ndiswrapper with the netgear wg121 USB adapter, with the netgear wgr614v4 router.
My network's essid is "mnet", so to load my network, before the upgrade, I would just:
modprobe ndiswrapper
iwconfig wlan0 essid mnet
dhcpcd wlan0
...and that would be the end of it.
Now, however, I can't connect to anything when I do that. It still detects the network -- i.e., when running iwconfig I can see my network, my router's mac address, etc. dhcpcd doesn't give me a lot of helpful information as to what the problem is--It just runs and closes. I've tried numerous variations of it, i.e., dhcpcd -G 192.168.0.1 wlan0, etc., but nothing usually works. Here's the deal: sometimes it does! On occasion, after running dhcpcd numerous times and playing with it for 15+ minutes, I can get it to connect to the internet, but there is no way to tell why! It just "decides" randomly to connect occassionally, and it's not like I issued a different command -- each time it "decides" to connect, it was because I issued a command I must have done at least 10 times before.
dhclient gives a little more info--I found out that I was being set up with 192.168.0.5, every time--whether the net worked or not. This is kind of signifigant because I actually set up my router to have my mac address always get 192.168.0.5, so it seems dhcp is actually working.
So the question is, why would the internet always work on windows, and rarely work on arch? What could be the difference with the upgraded router?
Thanks for any ideas...

Okay then. I just tried multiple ndiswrapper versions -- 1.35, 1.34 (what I've been using forever), 1.33, 1.32, 1.28, and 1.8. None of them worked. (BTW, I've been compiling ndiswrapper from source forever, and not using the pacman versions. I did this before the network stopped working, too, so I didn't think this could possibly be a problem?)
I didn't expect ndiswrapper to work as good as native windows drivers! I just found it weird that the driver would suddenly stop working in linux, and keep working in windows/wii.
I tried "ifconfig wlan0 up" and just about a billion other commands.
Now, I tried a bunch of really interesting tests: First, I connected to a neighbor's network. And it worked. Second, I installed ubuntu and ndiswrapper 1.8 on that. And it worked. Why would it work with ubuntu consistently, and not with arch? That seemed odd.
And now, the logs:
iwconfig - broken, working. (I didn't add in the lo, eth0, sit0 on the second one; they weren't being picked up by iwconfig > file, so I added them in on the first one, but they were showing up when I ran the command).
iwlist wlan0 scan - broken, working.
dmesg - broken, working (I actually unmodprobe'd ndiswrapper and remodprobed it right before it started working. It's weird tricks like that that get it to work, but it's not consistent, like I said).
ping google.com - broken (just in case it might help; I doubt it will, but that pops up after about 30 seconds when the internet's not working).
Notice how the broken/working contents for almost everything is pretty much the same. That's why I figured it would be useless to post it!
Any ideas now, especially about how it would work on ubuntu and not arch (which is a little more fair then comparing arch to windows, I guess)?
Thanks again!
Last edited by tm8992 (2007-01-29 17:37:41)

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