[CentOS] 3.2 kernel with C5? Or ndiswrapper?

[Johnny Hughes]

On 04/04/2012 11:51 AM, Stephen Harris wrote:
> I know, I know... don't use the non-standard kernels unless you have to...
>
> BUT: I have a D-Link N150 USB card.
>
> Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0846:9030 NetGear, Inc. WNA1100 Wireless-N 150 [Atheros AR9271]
>
> This isn't supported in C5, but it is supported in newer kernels (ath9k_htc).
>
> So let's try NDISwrapper:
>
>   # rpm -i kmod\-ndiswrapper\-1.56\-1.el5.elrepo.i686.rpm ndiswrapper\-utils\-1.56\-1.el5.elrepo.i386.rpm
>   warning: kmod-ndiswrapper-1.56-1.el5.elrepo.i686.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID baadae52
>   Working. This may take some time ...
>   Done.
>   # cd WLAN/
>   # ls
>   athuw.sys*  netathuw.cat*  netathuw.inf*
>   # ndiswrapper -i netathuw.inf
>   installing netathuw ...
>   forcing parameter MapRegisters from 256 to 64
>   forcing parameter MapRegisters from 256 to 64
>   [repeated multiple times]
>   # ndiswrapper -l
>   netathuw : driver installed
>           device (0846:9030) present
>   # modprobe ndiswrapper
>   # dmesg | tail -5
>   ndiswrapper: driver netathuw (,09/30/2010,7.7.0.98) loaded
>   wlan0: ethernet device c4:3d:c7:bc:ea:89 using NDIS driver: netathuw, version: 0x70007, NDIS version: 0x501, vendor: 'NDIS Network Adapter', 0846:9030.F.conf
>   wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP; TKIP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK; AES/CCMP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK
>   usbcore: registered new driver ndiswrapper
>   ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
>   # ifconfig wlan0
>   wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr C4:3D:C7:BC:EA:89
>             UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>             RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>             TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>             collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>             RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
>
>   # /sbin/iwlist wlan0 scan | grep ESSID.*sweh
>                       ESSID:"sweh"
>
> So far, so good!
>
> BUT...
>   # iwconfig wlan0 nickname fred
>   # iwconfig wlan0 essid sweh
>   # iwconfig wlan0
>   wlan0     IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:off/any  Nickname:"fred"
>             Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.412 GHz  Access Point: Not-Associated
>             Bit Rate=150 Mb/s
>             Encryption key:off
>             Power Management:off
>             Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
>             Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
>             Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0
>
> Hmm, ESSID isn't being set.  If I try to configure wpa_supplicant
> then it never associates properly.
>
> So I'm not totally convinced ndiswrapper is working for me.
>
> So I figured... dammit; let's try a generic kernel.  Not good, but...
>
> I compile 3.2.9, install the modules and then try an boot...  and
> it fails to find my root disk and panics.  I can see from the boot
> messages that the kernel is seeing them, but it's failing to mount and
> switchroot.
>
> (of course I can't get useful information 'cos you can't do anything
> useful after a panic!)
>
> Looking at the initrd, it seems to have all the right drivers and
> modules, and the init script _looks_ correct... but it's just not
> working.
>
> Has anyone else tried to get 3.2.9 to work with C5.8?
>
> Or has anyone any advice for getting ndiswrapper to work for me (or 
> other ways of running the N150 card)?
>

You might try the uek2 kernel (rebuilt from the oracle sources) for el5
from the testing repo too:

http://dev.centos.org/centos/5/

That is based on a 3.1.x kernel, though it is versioned as 2.6.39-*



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