usb wifi adapter causing kernel problem

[newbie_noob]

Hi, I bought a rosewill RNX-N180UBE wifi adapter,
and it doesn't work with lmde.
I tried insterting the windows driver cd and use ndsiwrapper, but I get the error: "module ndiswrapper not found".
The adapter also give me kernel erros:

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message from syslog@xxxx at Aug 11 xx:xx:xx ...
kernel: [  425.791579]  Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP

+ another one with "Stack" instead of "Ooops"

+ another one with "Call Trace" instead of "Oops"

+ another one with "Code + some hex values" instead of "Oops"

+ another one with "CR2:ffffc90005111000" instead of "Oops"

After I get the kernel error, I can no longer use commands like "sudo iwconfig" because they cause terminals to stop responding.

[HughT]

hi newbie_noob,
looks like ndiswrapper isn't installed. You can install it through apt-get or Package Manager in the normal way. regards

[newbie_noob]

I installed the stuff mentionned in this OP : http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=11970543
It however don't work.

[HughT]

mmm looking at their website http://www.rosewill.com/products/s_1721 ... Detail.htm it seems that Linux is supported since kernel 2.6. With the adapter plugged in what does

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lsusb

give you?

[newbie_noob]

It gives me this:

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lsusb
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 005: ID 0c45:63fa Microdia
Bus 004 Device 002: ID 08ff:2810 AuthenTec, Inc. AES2810
Bus 006 Device 002: ID 045e:0745 Microsoft Corp. Nano Transceiver v1.0 for Bluetooth
Bus 006 Device 003: ID 046d:c52b Logitech, Inc. Unifying Receiver
Bus 002 Device 006: ID 0bda:8172 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8191SU 802.11n WLAN Adapter


I believe the rosewill wifi adapter is the realtek chip thing.

I don't know how to install from sources the 2.6-linux-driver supplied by rosewill.
I tried

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./config
sudo make
sudo make install

And each command gave errors.
This one is for the ./config:

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./config: line 1: $'\r': command not found
./config: line 5: $'\r': command not found
./config: line 6: CONFIG_RTL8711: command not found
./config: line 7: CONFIG_RTL8712: command not found
./config: line 8: $'\r': command not found
./config: line 9: $'\r': command not found
./config: line 10: CONFIG_USB_HCI: command not found
./config: line 11: CONFIG_SDIO_HCI: command not found
./config: line 12: $'\r': command not found
./config: line 13: $'\r': command not found
./config: line 14: CONFIG_MP_INCLUDED: command not found
./config: line 15: $'\r': command not found
./config: line 16: CONFIG_PLATFORM_I386_PC: command not found
./config: line 17: CONFIG_PLATFORM_ANDROID_X86: command not found
./config: line 18: CONFIG_PLATFORM_ARM_S3C: command not found
./config: line 19: CONFIG_PLATFORM_ARM_PXA: command not found
./config: line 20: CONFIG_PLATFORM_MIPS_RMI: command not found
./config: line 21: CONFIG_PLATFORM_RTK_DMP: command not found
./config: line 22: CONFIG_PLATFORM_MIPS_PLM: command not found
./config: line 23: CONFIG_PLATFORM_RTD2880B: command not found
./config: line 24: CONFIG_PLATFORM_MSTAR389: command not found
./config: line 25: $'\r': command not found
./config: line 26: CONFIG_MLME_EXT: command not found
./config: line 27: CONFIG_DRVEXT_MODULE: command not found


Contents of the source folder:

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total 128K
7864663 4.0K drwxrwxrwx 22 1000 1000 4.0K Aug 12 16:08 .
7864656 4.0K drwx------  3 1000 1000 4.0K Aug 12 13:58 ..
7864664 4.0K -rwx------  1 1000 1000 3.4K Apr  1  2011 autoconf_rtl8712_usb_linux.h
7864665 4.0K -rwx------  1 1000 1000  151 Apr  1  2011 clean
7864666 4.0K drwxrwxrwx  2 1000 1000 4.0K Aug 12 16:08 cmd
7864669 4.0K -rwx------  1 1000 1000  516 Apr  1  2011 config
7864670 4.0K drwxrwxrwx  2 1000 1000 4.0K Apr  1  2011 crypto
7864672 4.0K drwxrwxrwx  2 1000 1000 4.0K Apr  1  2011 debug
7864674 4.0K drwxrwxrwx  2 1000 1000 4.0K Apr  1  2011 eeprom
7864676 4.0K drwxrwxrwx  2 1000 1000 4.0K Apr  1  2011 efuse
7864679 4.0K drwxrwxrwx  3 1000 1000 4.0K Apr  1  2011 hal
7864693 4.0K -rwx------  1 1000 1000   54 Apr  1  2011 ifcfg-wlan0
7864694 4.0K drwxrwxrwx  4 1000 1000 4.0K Apr  1  2011 include
7864809 4.0K drwxrwxrwx  2 1000 1000 4.0K Apr  1  2011 io
7864812 4.0K drwxrwxrwx  2 1000 1000 4.0K Apr  1  2011 ioctl
7864817 4.0K -rwx------  1 1000 1000  107 Apr  1  2011 Kconfig
7864818 4.0K drwxrwxrwx  2 1000 1000 4.0K Apr  1  2011 led
7864820 8.0K -rwx------  1 1000 1000 7.0K Apr  1  2011 Makefile
7864821 4.0K drwxrwxrwx  2 1000 1000 4.0K Apr  1  2011 mlme
7864824 4.0K drwxrwxrwx  2 1000 1000 4.0K Apr  1  2011 mp
7864827 4.0K drwxrwxrwx  3 1000 1000 4.0K Apr  1  2011 os_dep
7864834 4.0K drwxrwxrwx  3 1000 1000 4.0K Apr  1  2011 os_intf
7864839 4.0K drwxrwxrwx  2 1000 1000 4.0K Apr  1  2011 pwrctrl
7864841 4.0K drwxrwxrwx  2 1000 1000 4.0K Apr  1  2011 recv
7864844 4.0K drwxrwxrwx  2 1000 1000 4.0K Apr  1  2011 rf
7864847 4.0K -rwx------  1 1000 1000  423 Apr  1  2011 runwpa
7864848 4.0K drwxrwxrwx  2 1000 1000 4.0K Apr  1  2011 sta_mgt
7864870 4.0K drwxr-xr-x  2    0    0 4.0K Aug 12 14:00 .tmp_versions
7864850 4.0K -rwx------  1 1000 1000  294 Apr  1  2011 wlan0dhcp
7864851 4.0K -rwx------  1 1000 1000  338 Apr  1  2011 wpa1.conf
7864852 4.0K drwxrwxrwx  2 1000 1000 4.0K Apr  1  2011 xmit


Also:
When I plug or unplug the wifi adapter it sometimes crash lmde.

[HughT]

the 2.6-linux-driver supplied by rosewill.

can you confirm that your version of Mint uses that kernel ie the 2.6 version. Also I notice that the error message mentions RTL8711and RTL8712, but not your driver - RTL8191SU, which is odd. It might be worth trying the driver downloaded from the Realtek site http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/dow ... loads=true