ndiswrapper usb dongle freezes X

[Gavin Costello]

I am using ndiswrapper with a Sagem USB dongle provided by Wanadoo France on a
Dell Latitude D600 laptop.
I can modprobe ndiswrapper,ifup wlan0 etc., but after about 10 seconds X
completely freezes and I need to do a hard reset.

[Phil Bull (philbull)]

Thanks for the report. Could you provide some more information for us?

1. What's the model number of the dongle?
2. What version of ndiswrapper are you using?
3. What driver are you using?

You may find this page helpful:
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/List#S

[Neil Munro (neilmunro-deactivatedaccount)]

Something simelar has happened to me, here's my info.

Model no. of the dongle: D-Link DWL-G122 Revision D1
Ndiswrapper version: copied verbitam

njal@aurora:~$ sudo ndiswrapper -v
utils version: 1.7
driver modinfo: could not open ndiswrapper: No such device

Driver is:

njal@aurora:~$ sudo ndiswrapper -l
Installed ndis drivers:
usb55n5x driver present

This is the driver provided with the hardware, and works until it freezes.

I can also say it's more than X crashing, i can't even ssh into my machine after this has happened.

Hope this helps.

[Ryan Zeigler (rzeigler)]

I have left my machine at a terminal and just left it sit. When ndiswrapper is loaded with a 386 kernel nothing happens, however, when I let it sit with a 686 kernel I get a kernel panic.

I have a WUSB54Gv1 wirless card

Hobbsee packaged version 1.17 for me, and it solves the problem. Its located here:
http://revu.tauware.de/details.py?upid=2422

[andrew (andrewjweaver)]

I have this issue on a Dell Latitude CPi and D-Link USB wireless dongle model DWL-G132. Works fine in 386 kernels, but various 686 kernels, including 2.6.15-27 cause the kernel to hang.

Here's output from /var/log/messages under the 386 kernel:
Dec 2 11:47:26 localhost kernel: [17179650.384000] ndiswrapper version 1.8 loaded (preempt=yes,smp=no)
Dec 2 11:47:26 localhost kernel: [17179650.704000] ndiswrapper: driver athfmwdl (,12/05/2003,1.00.001) loaded
Dec 2 11:47:26 localhost kernel: [17179651.204000] usbcore: registered new driver ndiswrapper
Dec 2 11:47:26 localhost kernel: [17179651.632000] usb 1-1: USB disconnect, address 2
Dec 2 11:47:26 localhost kernel: [17179651.632000] ndiswrapper (IoWMIRegistrationControl:1003):
Dec 2 11:47:26 localhost kernel: [17179651.872000] usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
Dec 2 11:47:26 localhost kernel: [17179652.116000] ndiswrapper: driver neta5agu (D-Link,10/06/2004,1.0.1.41) loaded
Dec 2 11:47:26 localhost kernel: [17179653.404000] wlan0: vendor: ''
Dec 2 11:47:26 localhost kernel: [17179653.404000] wlan0: ndiswrapper ethernet device 00:11:95:d6:1d:89 using driver neta5agu, 2001:3A02.F.conf
Dec 2 11:47:26 localhost kernel: [17179653.404000] wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP; TKIP with WPA; AES/CCMP with WPA

[torre (john-thorburn)]

I have Edgy on my Dell Latitude CPx and am using a D-Link DWL-G132 rev A3 (P/N EWLG132EU.A3G), downloaded the latest drivers from the D-Link support site for the A3 rev. (DriverVer 05/08/2006,1.5.202.2)

To make my life easier I installed Gnome Network Manager on the system.

If I install the driver using ndiswrapper -i neta5agu.inf and then do a modprobe ndiswrapper the machine hangs after about 2 seconds.

What I have noticed is that when you disable DBus (/etc/init.d/dbus stop) and do the modprobe, you can continue working normally, however since Network Manager is not working there is nothing being done to the newly created wlan0 device.

When I start wpa_supplicant (which is what Network Manager does in the background) on/with the wlan0 interface, the machine instantly hangs, without any kernel/syslog messages.

iwlist wlan0 scan works.

To get my system up and running I tried using the commercial product driverloader from linuxant, it works with the driver, but with the limitation of not being able to use WPA or WPA2. Hope this helps anyone.

[torre (john-thorburn)]

Some additional information

By compiling the sources myself on my system I managed to get a "stable" ndiswrapper kernel module, however I crashed with a dump when you do rmmod ndiswrapper

Hardware D-Link DWL-G132 rev A3 (P/N EWLG132EU.A3G)

Distribution Edgy Eft
uname -r 2.6.17-10-generic

ndiswrapper version 1.8 (self-compiled)

Windows ndis driver NetA5AGU.inf (05/08/2006,1.5.202.2)
Fetch it here

ftp://ftp.dlink.se/Products/dwl-products/dwl-g132/drivers_firmware/D-Link+AirPlus+Xtreme+G+DWL-G132+Utility+(V1%5B1%5D.21+Build+60629+S0008).zip

[Phil Bull (philbull)]

Are you able to test this using Feisty? There is now a graphical front-end for ndiswrapper, ndisgtk. That might be worth a try.

[Neil Munro (neilmunro-deactivatedaccount)]

Will let you know when I am back at uni when I will be able to upgrade to
Feisty.

On 4/2/07, Phil Bull <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> Are you able to test this using Feisty? There is now a graphical front-
> end for ndiswrapper, ndisgtk. That might be worth a try.
>
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> ndiswrapper usb dongle freezes X
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Njal

[Valentin Rocher (bishiboosh)]

With Feisty here and a Netgear WPN111, it keeps freezing :/

(I've tried also with the latest ndiswrapper from their website, but it keeps freezing)

[Dirk Schramm (no-comment)]

had freezes with multiple usb-dongles (dwl-g132 one of them), just installed 386-kernels, not 686, everything works form now on. seems to be a problem with SMP.

[Andreas Gnau (rondom)]

Please take your time and report this bug upstream (i.e. visting http://ndiswrapper.sf.net trying the latest version, reading wiki on how to report bugs, report the actual bug) .

[Andreas Gnau (rondom)]

Is this fixed in hardy?

[XiFu (xifu)]

I'm experiencing this bug too in hardy.

Bug repeatable:
When trying to "sudo modprobe -r ndiswrapper", module is not unloaded ("lsmod"), and after some seconds the system freezes (caps and scroll leds on keyboard blinking).

Surecom WLAN USB-Stick
rt2500usb chip
Windows XP driver

Ndiswrapper ver.:
utils version: '1.9', utils version needed by module: '1.9'
module details:
filename: /lib/modules/2.6.24-16-generic/ubuntu/misc/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper.ko
version: 1.52
vermagic: 2.6.24-16-generic SMP mod_unload 586

Hardy, kernel 2.6.24-16-generic

I'm also sure, that because of this bug, hibernate is not working on my system.
Tried hibernate before installing ndiswrapper, everything worked fine.
When using ndiswrapper and going to hibernate, the system does not shut down.

[Filip Szczepanski (jazz2rulez)]

It seems this bug is connected to a past bug in Ndiswrapper ( https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ndiswrapper/+bug/114473 ). Can anyone check?

[Dmitry Shachnev (mitya57)]

The similar bug, but it freezes not only X, Ctrl+Alt+F1 and even CapsLock don't work too.
Fujitsu Siemens Amilo Li1818, Ubuntu 9.10, ndiswrapper 1.54 with WinXP sis163u driver. Also, ndisgtk displays "Невозможно определить устройство" ("Unable to recongnize the device" -- from russian) on start.
It's the bug #380186, but there's no discussion there.

[Dmitry Shachnev (mitya57)]

> It seems this bug is connected to a past bug in Ndiswrapper (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ndiswrapper/+bug/114473 ). Can anyone check?
No-no, it's another!

[Raik (jinto)]

I have the same problem with sis163u driver. It worked on Jaunty, but not on Karmic and Lucid. Loading the ndiswrapper modul and scanning for networks works fine, but when i start wpa_supplicant to connect to a WPA2 network the whole system freezes. On the console i get the following error:

Bug: soft lockup - CPU #0 stuck for 61s!

[Dmitry Shachnev (mitya57)]

>Bug: soft lockup - CPU #0 stuck for 61s!
I also have this message sometimes after switching from Jaunty to Karmic (now I use Lucid as a clean install, but it also appears).

[Dmitry Shachnev (mitya57)]

Raik Bieniek, I think you should subscribe to bug #380186, it is our problem (this bug is about X server crashes).

[rusivi2 (rusivi2-deactivatedaccount)]

Thank you for reporting this bug.

Does this occur in Maverick?

[Dmitry Shachnev (mitya57)]

Yes, it occurs in Maverick (but seems that more rarely).

2010/9/14 rusivi1 <email address hidden>

> Thank you for reporting this bug.
>
> Does this occur in Maverick?

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Original reporter -> Gavin Costello does not use Launchpad.