Monday, May 14, 2018

Unable to get wireless netgear WNDA3100v2 to work




After a long struggle I was able to successfully install the ndiswrapper and the windows driver. The driver is reported now as installed:



sudo ndiswrapper -l
bcmwlhigh6 : driver installed
device (0846:9011) present


The device id matches the one from lsusb output:



lsusb|grep Net

Bus 002 Device 002: ID 0846:9011 NetGear, Inc. WNDA3100v2 802.11abgn [Broadcom BCM4323]


But still can't connect to wireless.



iwconfig
eth0 no wireless extensions.
lo no wireless extensions.



I noticed that:



modprobe ndiswrapper


Returns nothing.



Then I did:
dmesg|grep ndis




And voila. What do those messages mean? Both my drivers and my ubuntu are x64.



[  495.031481] ndiswrapper: module verification failed: signature and/or required key missing - tainting kernel
[ 495.032287] ndiswrapper version 1.59 loaded (smp=yes, preempt=no)
[ 495.295718] ndiswrapper (import:232): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisQueueIoWorkItem'
[ 495.295725] ndiswrapper (import:232): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisFreeIoWorkItem'
[ 495.295729] ndiswrapper (import:232): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisMSetMiniportAttributes'
[ 495.295734] ndiswrapper (import:232): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisMResetComplete'
[ 495.295737] ndiswrapper (import:232): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisMAllocatePort'
[ 495.295741] ndiswrapper (import:232): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisAllocateIoWorkItem'

[ 495.295744] ndiswrapper (import:232): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisMSendNetBufferListsComplete'
[ 495.295748] ndiswrapper (import:232): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisMDeregisterMiniportDriver'
[ 495.295751] ndiswrapper (import:232): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisAllocateNetBufferListPool'
[ 495.295756] ndiswrapper (import:232): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisMNetPnPEvent'
[ 495.295761] ndiswrapper (import:232): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisMRegisterMiniportDriver'
[ 495.295765] ndiswrapper (import:232): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisMFreePort'
[ 495.295768] ndiswrapper (import:232): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisMIndicateReceiveNetBufferLists'
[ 495.295772] ndiswrapper (import:232): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisMPauseComplete'
[ 495.295776] ndiswrapper (import:232): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisFreeNetBufferListPool'
[ 495.295779] ndiswrapper (import:232): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisCancelTimerObject'

[ 495.295783] ndiswrapper (import:232): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisOpenConfigurationEx'
[ 495.295786] ndiswrapper (import:232): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisSetTimerObject'
[ 495.295790] ndiswrapper (import:232): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisFreeTimerObject'
[ 495.295794] ndiswrapper (import:232): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisAllocateTimerObject'
[ 495.295797] ndiswrapper (import:232): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisMIndicateStatusEx'
[ 495.295801] ndiswrapper (import:232): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisFreeNetBufferList'
[ 495.295808] ndiswrapper (import:232): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisMGetBusData'
[ 495.295812] ndiswrapper (import:232): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisGetSystemUpTimeEx'
[ 495.295815] ndiswrapper (import:232): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisAllocateNetBufferAndNetBufferList'
[ 495.295819] ndiswrapper (import:232): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisAllocateMdl'

[ 495.295822] ndiswrapper (import:232): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisFreeMdl'
[ 495.295828] ndiswrapper (import:232): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisMOidRequestComplete'
[ 495.295832] ndiswrapper (import:232): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisAllocateMemoryWithTagPriority'
[ 495.295839] ndiswrapper (import:232): unknown symbol: WDFLDR.SYS:'WdfVersionBind'
[ 495.295841] ndiswrapper (import:232): unknown symbol: WDFLDR.SYS:'WdfVersionBindClass'
[ 495.295844] ndiswrapper (import:232): unknown symbol: WDFLDR.SYS:'WdfVersionUnbindClass'
[ 495.295847] ndiswrapper (import:232): unknown symbol: WDFLDR.SYS:'WdfVersionUnbind'
[ 495.295849] ndiswrapper (load_sys_files:200): couldn't prepare driver 'bcmwlhigh6'
[ 495.296262] ndiswrapper (load_wrap_driver:103): couldn't load driver bcmwlhigh6; check system log for messages from 'loadndisdriver'
[ 495.296300] usbcore: registered new interface driver ndiswrapper



I doubt that bcmwlhigh6 is correct for your device. I suggest you try the files from post #6 here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2052594


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