Public bug reported: This is the most recent wifi dongle from AVM. Extracting the official windows 7 64bit binary driver and loading it with ndiswrapper doesn't work
# ndiswrapper -l fwlan6x_w7 : driver installed device (057C:8502) present # dmesg | egrep 'ndis|wlan' [ 777.438876] ndiswrapper (import:232): unknown symbol: ntoskrnl.exe:'ExEventObjectType' [ 777.438891] ndiswrapper (import:232): unknown symbol: ntoskrnl.exe:'isxdigit' [ 777.438938] ndiswrapper (import:232): unknown symbol: ntoskrnl.exe:'_local_unwind' [ 777.438954] ndiswrapper (import:232): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisAllocateNetBuffer' [ 777.438964] ndiswrapper (import:232): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisFreeNetBuffer' [ 777.438973] ndiswrapper (import:232): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisAllocateNetBufferList' [ 777.438986] ndiswrapper (import:232): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisQueueIoWorkItem' [ 777.439000] ndiswrapper (import:232): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisMIndicateStatusEx' [ 777.439012] ndiswrapper (import:232): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisMOidRequestComplete' [ 777.439021] ndiswrapper (import:232): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisMDeregisterMiniportDriver' [ 777.439031] ndiswrapper (import:232): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisMRegisterMiniportDriver' [ 777.439040] ndiswrapper (import:232): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisMFreePort' [ 777.439054] ndiswrapper (import:232): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisFreeIoWorkItem' [ 777.439064] ndiswrapper (import:232): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisMSetMiniportAttributes' [ 777.439073] ndiswrapper (import:232): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisOpenConfigurationEx' [ 777.439093] ndiswrapper (import:232): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisDeregisterDeviceEx' [ 777.439107] ndiswrapper (import:232): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisAllocateIoWorkItem' [ 777.439116] ndiswrapper (import:232): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisMIndicateReceiveNetBufferLists' [ 777.439126] ndiswrapper (import:232): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisMSendNetBufferListsComplete' [ 777.439135] ndiswrapper (import:232): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisFreeNetBufferList' [ 777.439145] ndiswrapper (import:232): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisFreeNetBufferListPool' [ 777.439154] ndiswrapper (import:232): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisFreeMdl' [ 777.439164] ndiswrapper (import:232): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisAllocateMemoryWithTagPriority' [ 777.439190] ndiswrapper (import:232): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisAllocateMdl' [ 777.439199] ndiswrapper (import:232): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisMNetPnPEvent' [ 777.439214] ndiswrapper (import:232): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisAllocateNetBufferListPool' [ 777.439231] ndiswrapper (import:232): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisAllocateNetBufferAndNetBufferList' [ 777.439241] ndiswrapper (import:232): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisAllocateNetBufferPool' [ 777.439266] ndiswrapper (import:232): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisMAllocatePort' [ 777.439275] ndiswrapper (import:232): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisFreeNetBufferPool' [ 777.439285] ndiswrapper (import:232): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisRegisterDeviceEx' [ 777.439293] ndiswrapper (import:232): unknown symbol: WDFLDR.SYS:'WdfVersionUnbindClass' [ 777.439301] ndiswrapper (import:232): unknown symbol: WDFLDR.SYS:'WdfVersionBindClass' [ 777.439308] ndiswrapper (import:232): unknown symbol: WDFLDR.SYS:'WdfVersionBind' [ 777.439316] ndiswrapper (import:232): unknown symbol: WDFLDR.SYS:'WdfVersionUnbind' [ 777.439320] ndiswrapper (load_sys_files:199): couldn't prepare driver 'fwlan6x_w7' [ 777.439479] ndiswrapper (load_wrap_driver:121): couldn't load driver 'fwlan6x_w7' After some research this device turned out to have a Mediatek mt7610un chipset. There is an official driver on the mediatek website: http://www.mediatek.com/en/downloads/?sort=os We compiled the driver and copied the binary files from ~/mt7610u_wifi_sta_v3002_dpo_20130916/mcu/bin to /lib/firmware. The result of sudo modprobe mt7650u_sta is: Mar 8 16:37:15 kernel: [ 279.692549] ERROR!!! NICLoadFirmware failed, Status[=0x00000001] ** Affects: linux (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: Incomplete ** Tags: kernel-bug-exists-upstream ** Tags added: kernel-bug-exists-upstream -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1317591 Title: Need support for new AVM Wifi usb stick - AVM Fritz!WLAN AC 430 [057c:8502] To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1317591/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
