terminal doesn't respond after modprobing "ndiswrapper"

[Abdullah Esmail]

when i open the terminal it just opens and nothing you can do then except
"force-quit" it.
it works fine before i modprobed ndiswrapper. i edited some text files and did
some other stuff through the terminal and all went ok until the modprobe
command. i'm not sure if this is because the modprobe command or the ndiswrapper
module.
what exactly happens: after i modprobe'd ndiswrapper and closed the terminal, it
freezes just after i open it again immediately which forces me to quit-force it.
i'm ubuntu hoary current snapshot (and this happened today 2/28/05)
i'm using a laptop, HP pavillion ze4900 series. hope this helps a bit.

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

Sounds like a problem with ndiswrapper. Try this:

Open two terminals
modprobe ndiswrapper in one of them
In the other, run dmesg and attach a copy of the output here

[Abdullah Esmail (wabberxp)]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Sounds like a problem with ndiswrapper. Try this:
>
> Open two terminals
> modprobe ndiswrapper in one of them
> In the other, run dmesg and attach a copy of the output here

root@JavaMe:/home/abdullah # dmesg
Linux version 2.6.10-4-386 (buildd@mcmurdo) (gcc version 3.3.5 (Debian
1:3.3.5-8ubuntu2)) #1 Fri Feb 25 05:15:55 UTC 2005
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000000ce000 - 00000000000d0000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000000dc000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001dee0000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000001dee0000 - 000000001deec000 (ACPI data)
 BIOS-e820: 000000001deec000 - 000000001df00000 (ACPI NVS)
 BIOS-e820: 000000001df00000 - 0000000020000000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000ff800000 - 00000000ffc00000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000fffffc00 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
478MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 122592
  DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
  Normal zone: 118496 pages, LIFO batch:16
  HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
DMI present.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 HP ) @ 0x000f6560
ACPI: RSDT (v001 HP 3084 0x06040000 LTP 0x00000000) @ 0x1dee67e7
ACPI: FADT (v001 HP 3084 0x06040000 PTL 0x00000050) @ 0x1deebed2
ACPI: BOOT (v001 HP 3084 0x06040000 LTP 0x00000001) @ 0x1deebfd8
ACPI: DSDT (v001 HP 3084 0x06040000 MSFT 0x0100000e) @ 0x00000000
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x1008
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda1 ro quiet splash
Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- you can enable it with "lapic"
mapped APIC to ffffd000 (013c4000)
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 11, 32768 bytes)
Detected 1299.420 MHz processor.
Using pmtmr for high-res timesource
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Memory: 478492k/490368k available (1434k kernel code, 11220k reserved, 752k
data, 224k init, 0k highmem)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay loop... 2572.28 BogoMIPS (lpj=1286144)
Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
SELinux: Disabled at boot.
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
CPU: After generic identify, caps: afe9f9bf 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: afe9f9bf 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000
CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K
CPU: L2 cache: 1024K
CPU: After all inits, caps: afe9f9bf 00000000 00000000 00000040 00000000 00000000
CPU: Intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor 1.30GHz stepping 06
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
Checking for popad bug... OK.
ACPI: Looking for DSDT in initrd... not found!
ACPI: setting ELCR to 0200 (from 0c20)
checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (bad gzip magic numbers); looks like
an initrd
Freeing initrd memory: 4304k freed
NET: Registered protocol family 16
EISA bus registered
PC...

[Chuck Short (zulcss)]

I am not able to reproduce this:

chuck@homer:~/work/ubuntu/kernel/local/ubuntu/2.6.10/25$ sudo modprobe ndiswrapper
chuck@homer:~/work/ubuntu/kernel/local/ubuntu/2.6.10/25$ lsmod | grep ndis
ndiswrapper 126452 0

And in dmesg:

chuck@homer:~/work/ubuntu/kernel/local/ubuntu/2.6.10/25$ dmesg | grep ndis
ndiswrapper version 1.0rc2 loaded (preempt=yes,smp=no)

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

I cannot reproduce it either.

[Chuck Short (zulcss)]

Closing bug since we were not able to reproduce it.