ndiswrapper and topcom usb stick sis163u chipset [solved]

Sloebervos · Last edited by Sloebervos on Sun Jul 02, 2006 7:12 pm; edited 1 time in total

Hi,

I'm having problems installing a topcom usb stick on one of my gentoo machines. The driver works perfectly on my laptop (HP nc800) with ndiswrapper. However, on my P3 system it doesn't work. When I modprobe ndiswrapper I end up with the following lines in dmesg :

ndiswrapper version 1.16 loaded (preempt=no,smp=no)
ndiswrapper (register_devices:732): type 15 not supported: 0457:0163.F.conf
ndiswrapper (register_devices:732): type 15 not supported: 0D8E:0163.F.conf
ndiswrapper (register_devices:732): type 15 not supported: 1371:0021.F.conf
ndiswrapper (register_devices:732): type 15 not supported: 1371:0022.F.conf
ndiswrapper (register_devices:732): type 15 not supported: 0769:11F7.F.conf
ndiswrapper (register_devices:732): type 15 not supported: 1371:0023.F.conf

lsusb gives the following :

frontend1 ~ # lsusb
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0d8e:0163 Global Sun Technology, Inc.
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 093a:2468 Pixart Imaging, Inc.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

The first line is the wifi stick.

Is the hardware too old or did I forget something in the kernel/... ?

Attikus112 · n00b Joined: 15 Jun 2006 Posts: 1

i'm haveing the same problem with my usb wireless card using ndiswrapper, did you have any luck figuring it out?

gerard27 · Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2006 7:49 pm Post subject:

What is the OS of your laptop?
Looks to me likke you installed wrong files in ndiswrapper.

Sloebervos · Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 11:49 am Post subject:

It's a gentoo 2005 install. The same ndiswrapper driver works perfectly on my laptop but not on the p3. I think it has to do with USB 2.0 and 1.1.

gerard27 · Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 12:54 pm Post subject:

Hi sloebervos,
What is the output of

Sloebervos · Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 2:51 pm Post subject:

I don't know it by heart, but everything looked ok :

Sis163u driver present hardware present.

gerard27 · Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 6:34 pm Post subject:

Well then it's either the usb 1 or your kernel not supporting wifi
correctly.
Beats me.

kangabroo · n00b Joined: 01 Mar 2006 Posts: 2

Sloebervos · Posted: Sun Jul 02, 2006 6:47 pm Post subject:

Thx for the suggestion. I'll give it a try one of these days.

[edit] It works. Thanks a lot [/edit]