Linux: modprobe ndiswrapper dies w/o error

[Dave]

I'm trying to get ndiswrapper to work with a D-Link WUA-1340 USB-to-WiFi adapter.

All my checks with ndiswrapper seem to work, (i.e. ndiswrapper -l shows "Drivers present, Hardware present" or equivalent, etc.) but when I actually run modprobe ndiswrapper, it sits there and stares at me, without returning to the usual <username>@<computername>#

dmesg gives:

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<*snip* --unimportant dmesg entries-- *snip*>

ndiswrapper version 1.1 loaded (preempt=yes,smp=no)
ndiswrapper: driver dr71wu (D-Link,11/03/2005, 1.0.1.0) loaded
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000
 printing eip:
c9a49083
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0002 [#1]
PREEMPT
Modules linked in: ndiswrapper ipv6 xirc2ps_cs ds af_packet floppy parport_pc parport analog ns558 gameport pcspkr rtc 
uhci_hcd usbcore yenta_socket pcmcia_core tsdev mousedev evdev capability commoncap psmouse ide_cd cdrom ext3 jbd 
ide_generic piix ide_disk ide_core sd_mod ata_piix libata scsi_mod unix font vesafb cfbcopyarea cfbimgblt cfbfillrect
CPU:    0
EIP:    0060:[<c9a49083>]    Not tainted
EFLAGS: 00010246   (2.6.8-3-386)
EIP is at 0xc9a49083
eax: 00000000   ebx: c45c8000   ecx: 00000000   edx: 00000000
esi: ffffffed   edi: c46a1800   ebp: c532ddd8   esp: c532ddd0
ds: 007b   es: 007b   ss: 0068
Process loadndisdriver (pid: 3338, threadinfo=c532c000 task=c67e74a0)
Stack: 00000000 00000000 c532de58 c9a476cb 00000000 0000000c c64b62c0 00000001
       c9a1bcdf 00000000 00000000 00000000 c9a74295 00000000 00000000 00000020
       c9a8e748 ffffffed 00000000 c9a1ed9c c9a8e748 c45c8220 c45c8000 c9a49774
Call Trace:
 [<c9a1bcdf>] wrap_kmalloc+0x42/0x7d [ndiswrapper]
 [<c9a1ed9c>] NdisMInitializeTimer+0xf/0x2c [ndiswrapper]
 [<c01e08ec>] ether_setup+0x0/0x86
 [<c9a23bb0>] miniport_init+0x57/0x61 [ndiswrapper]
 [<c9a1aa27>] ndiswrapper_add_one_usb_dev+0x93/0x15a [ndiswrapper]
 [<c994703c>] usb_probe_interface+0x36/0x40 [usbcore]
 [<c01d4af7>] bus_match+0x2e/0x4d
 [<c01d4bcc>] driver_attach+0x39/0x6e
 [<c01d4f30>] bus_add_driver+0x58/0x70
 [<c01d527f>] driver_register+0x2d/0x31
 [<c99470db>] usb_register+0x3a/0x7a [usbcore]
 [<c9a1b79c>] register_devices+0x45b/0x4f3 [ndiswrapper]
 [<c9a1b86a>] wrapper_ioctl+0x36/0xab [ndiswrapper]
 [<c0153e09>] sys_ioctl+0x1cd/0x214
 [<c0105f97>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
Code: c6 00 00 eb e4 8b e5 5d c2 08 00 cc cc 55 8b ec 83 ec 0c 8b
 <3>ndiswrapper (wrapper_init:1534): loadndiswrapper failed (11); check system log for messages from 'loadndisdriver'
usbcore: deregistering driver ndiswrapper

I'm running vanilla Debian, BTW.

The line Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000 looks ugly. Is that a problem?

Thanks in Advance (I hope) for any help anyone could give me.

[Drooling Iguana]

You'd probably have better luck posting this in the discussion forums for your distribution, if you haven't done so already.

[Pu-239]

Have you tried using the native drivers? It looks like that adapter should work w/ the Ralink rt2500 or something driver....