>>>>> "Leslie" == Leslie Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Leslie> Peter Chubb wrote: >> Hmmm. The device driver is trying to get 256k of memory in a >> single chunk. If your machine has been up for any lenght of time, >> that's going to be very difficult. >> >> Try rebooting, and then modprobing ndiswrapper immediately after >> boot --- you're more likely to have free memory then. >> Leslie> Thanks very much for your reply, Peter. Leslie> Here's absolutely everything I did as a result: Leslie> - powered off - booted up - opened a terminal - used Leslie> ndiswrapper with the -i option and the Windows .INF file; Leslie> while the command was executing, I got repeated twice "Forcing Leslie> parameter AdhocGModel1 to AdhocGModel0" - used ndiswrapper Leslie> with the -l option; I got the following: You only need to do this once. After that, the driver bits are installed by the ndiswrapper command into a standard place. Leslie> Installed drivers: wg511v2 driver installed, hardware present Leslie> - used depmod with the -a option - used modprobe ndiswrapper; Leslie> I got the prompt back with no intervening screen output - used Leslie> dmesg | grep -i ndiswrapper; I got the following: Leslie> <6> ndiswrapper version 1.14 loaded (preempt=no,smp=yes) <6> This is an ancient version of ndiswrapper. The current version is 1.40, and has fixes for PCMCIA cards --- I don't think that ersion 1.14 had that. Upgrade and you may have a chance. Peter C-- Dr Peter Chubb http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au peterc AT gelato.unsw.edu.au http://www.ertos.nicta.com.au ERTOS within National ICT Australia -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
