Ndiswrapper with WUSB11 2.6

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Following on from What packagedo I need for ‘make’? - openSUSE Forums…

I’ve been following Madwifi or Ndiswrapper Wireless Network Drivers - Suse/openSUSE 10, 11 - LAN & Internet access to install ndiswrapper and once again seem to have encountered some problems…

Here’s what I’ve done so far:

safetycopy@linux-bkck: ~> su
Password:
linux-bkck:/home/safetycopy # ndiswrapper -i /path_to/NETUSB.INF
linux-bkck:/home/safetycopy # ndiswrapper -l
netusb : driver installed
        deviceee (077B:2219) present (alternate driver: at76_usb)

I added at76_usb to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist (‘blacklist at76_usb’)

Then:

linux-bkck:/home/safetycopy # modprobe ndiswrapper
linux-bkck:/home/safetycopy #

I get no response from that which means success. At this point I rebooted to make sure ndiswrapper loaded at boot time, but according to YaST Network Settings it didn’t as it asks me if I want to modprobe ndiswrapper when I attempt to configure the card.

If I allow the modprobe at this point, my machine locks up and the Caps, Number and Scroll Lock indicators on my keyboard flash on and off… :\

This is where I come unstuck: the article said to add ‘modprobe ndiswrapper’ to /etc/init.d/boot.ini, but I can’t find this file. There’s no ‘boot.ini’ file, just ‘/etc/init.d/boot’ (shell script, 7.2KiB). Is this boot.ini? I tried adding ‘modprobe ndiswrapper’ to ‘/etc/init.d/boot’ and rebooting, but that didn’t seem to make any difference.

‘lsusb’ results in:

Bus 001 Device 002: ID 077b:2219 Linksys WUSB11 V2.6 802.11b Adapter

I have the wired card in my box configured to start on cable connect as advised in the above article.

EDIT: Upon booting into Windows to post this… GRUB gives me my boot menu and I select Windows. Before Windows starts I get asked whether to boot Windows or openSUSE Install local. I select Windows. When Windows starts, the openSUSE installer pops up. Does this have anything to do with why I can’t find boot.ini in openSUSE? I think the installer is popping up because I inserted the DVD to install openSUSE when I was still logged into Windows (I didn’t install from Windows, just inserted the DVD and clicked cancel when I got the openSUSE install language dialog, then rebooted to install).

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I had a similar problem, and I had to set the cards to start manually, or hotplug may work, because if it was not in the system before it tried to load ndiswrapper, it hung my laptop every time. As far as the boot deal in windows, you should be able to go to the computer properties and go to the advanced tab, click on the startup and recovery settings button, and edit the startup option manually. I would set the time to disply to 0, and then click the edit tab to find out where the boot image is hiding at, and then get rid of it. I hope this helps. After you get rid of the suse startup boot file, edit the entry from the boot.inf file using notepad.