wlan problem with belkin F5D6020 pcmcia card

From: brian (thefergies_at_gmail.com)
Date: 11/21/05 

Date: 21 Nov 2005 09:30:02 -0800

Hello All: just got Ubuntu Breezy running on my hpominbook xe4100
notebook.
It's great - all's fine except my belkin pcmcia card. wlan0 won't come
up. Here's what I get: ndiswrapper installs fine but 'sudo ifup wlan0'
gives:

brian@thefergies:~$ sudo ifup wlan0
Password:
Error for wireless request "Set ESSID" (8B1A) :
    SET failed on device wlan0 ; No such device.
There is already a pid file /var/run/dhclient.wlan0.pid with pid 0
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.2
Copyright 2004 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP

sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
Bind socket to interface: No such device
Failed to bring up wlan0.

/etc/network/interfaces:

brian@thefergies:~$ sudo cat /etc/network/interfaces
# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# This is a list of hotpluggable network interfaces.
# They will be activated automatically by the hotplug subsystem.
mapping hotplug
        script grep
        map eth0

# The primary network interface
iface eth0 inet dhcp

iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wireless-essid easynote
#iface wlan0 inet static
#wireless-channel 11
#wireless-mode managed
#wireless-rate 11M
#wireless-key 1234567890
#wireless-txpower 20
#address 192.168.1.33
#netmask 255.255.255.0
#gateway 192.168.1.1

auto eth0

auto wlan0

I commented out those lines thinking there may be a problem with them
(I
don't really know what they all mean anyway)
I started looking in 'dmesg' and found lots of errors with ndiswrapper
telling me to look in syslog. Here's what I've found in syslog:

Nov 17 18:49:23 localhost kernel: [4298714.730000] ndiswrapper version
1.1 loaded (preempt=no,smp=no)
Nov 17 18:49:23 localhost kernel: [4298714.731000] kmem_cache_create:
duplicate cache ndis_mdl
Nov 17 18:49:23 localhost kernel: [4298714.731000] ------------[ cut
here ]------------
Nov 17 18:49:23 localhost kernel: [4298714.731000] kernel BUG at <bad
filename>:28043!
Nov 17 18:49:23 localhost kernel: [4298714.731000] invalid operand:
0000
[#1]
Nov 17 18:49:23 localhost kernel: [4298714.731000] Modules linked in:
ndiswrapper atmel_cs atmel firmware_class orinoco_cs orinoco hermes
rfcomm l2cap bluetooth cpufreq_powersave cpufreq_stats
cpufreq_userspace
cpufreq_ondemand cpufreq_conservative freq_table pcmcia tc1100_wmi
video
battery container i2c_acpi_ec button pcc_acpi sony_acpi ac dev_acpi
hotkey
ipv6 af_packet floppy pcspkr rtc snd_via82xx_modem snd_seq_dummy
snd_seq_oss snd_seq_midi snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq snd_via82xx
gameport
snd_ac97_codec snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm snd_timer
snd_page_alloc snd_mpu401_uart snd_rawmidi snd_seq_device snd soundcore

i2c_viapro i2c_core via_ircc irda crc_ccitt yenta_socket rsrc_nonstatic
pcmcia_core shpchp pci_hotplug via_agp agpgart nls_iso8859_1 vfat fat
nls_cp437 ntfs dm_mod tsdev evdev psmouse mousedev parport_pc lp
parport
md reiserfs thermal processor fan via_rhine mii uhci_hcd usbcore ide_cd

cdrom ide_disk ide_generic via82cxxx ide_core unix vesafb capability
commoncap vga16fb vgastate softcursor cfbimgb
Nov 17 18:49:23 localhost kernel: t cfbfillrect cfbcopyarea fbcon
tileblit
font bitblit
Nov 17 18:49:23 localhost kernel: [4298714.731000] CPU: 0
Nov 17 18:49:23 localhost kernel: [4298714.731000] EIP:
0060:[kmem_cache_create+940/1038] Tainted: P VLI
Nov 17 18:49:23 localhost kernel: [4298714.731000] EFLAGS: 00010202
(2.6.12-9-386)
<snip>
Sorry it's so long (and it wraps funny too) When the light on the
belkin
card just starts to faintly come on I start getting strange keyboard
behaviour (keyboard can't keep up with my typing and endless
repetitions
of keystrokes that I'm not making anymore) so I'm thinking a conflict
somewhere. I don't know enough about how to even find what conflict,
let
alone resolve it. Please point me to where I should go next.
Thanks in advance
brian

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