Belkin F5D7050 AND IBM Thinkpad

Forum: Networking
Topic: Belkin F5D7050 AND IBM Thinkpad
started by: dleggate

Posted by dleggate on Jan. 07 2006,21:10

Hi all,

I'm having a bit of trouble getting my USB wireless adaptor working and was wondering if anybody could help.

The adaptor is a Belkin F5D7050 USB and I have successfully got this working on my main machine running Fedora (ndiswrapper 1.7, loading the bknUSB.inf and PRISMAXP.sys from the Windows driver).

I have installed DSL 2.1RC3 on my Thinkpad 560x and have been trying to get ndiswrapper working in the same way.

"ndiswrapper -l" tells me that te driver is installed and the hardware is present. However when I "modprobe ndiswrapper" I get the following in dmesg:
ndiswrapper version 1.1 loaded (preempt=no,smp=yes)
usb.c: registered new driver ndiswrapper
ndiswrapper: driver bknusb (BELKIN,11/11/2003, 1.00.5.0) loaded
ndiswrapper (IofCallDriver:1016): ioctl C0BBFD58 NOT IMPLEMENTED!
ndiswrapper (NdisWriteErrorLogEntry:273): log: C000138A, count: 3 (c0000001), return address: c6b65c73, entry: c6b7811f offset: 4294892372
ndiswrapper (ndiswrapper_add_one_usb_dev:312): Windows driver couldn't initialize the device (C0010006)

Is the problm that the Thinkpad only has a USB port and the adaptor needs USB2? Could it be the version of ndiswrapper I'm using?

Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Dan

Posted by dleggate on Jan. 08 2006,12:25

If it any help, I tried booting DSL on my main machine and setting up ndiswrapper. It is exactly the same as on the laptop - "ndiswrapper -l" says that the driver is installed and the hardware is present but modprobing ndiswrapper gives the same error in dmesg as before.

So I guess it is to do with the version of ndiswrapper in DSL. Is there anything I can try?

Thanks,
Dan

Posted by tempestuous on Jan. 08 2006,13:20

I still can't get the latest ndiswrapper (ver 1.7) to work properly, but I did some Googling which reveals that many troubleshooting success stories involve kernel boot options to influence IRQ handling.
So the following boot options may help -

pci=noacpi (no effect if you already use acpi=off)
pci=noirq
pci=biosirq
noapic

Posted by dleggate on Jan. 08 2006,14:40

Thanks for the suggestions. I tried the boot options you suggested but I'm afraid I still got the same error when I modprobed ndiswrapper. pci=noirq wasn't recognised as a valid option according to dmesg.