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Kernel panic after installing a driver with ndiswrapper

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So during my quest to get TL-WN821N, I got stopped by this problem..

I installed all the ndiswrapper programs with sudo apt-get install. They were, commons, utils-1.9, source, gtk and something else I think.

So I got it all installed, restarted and so far so good. Now I installed my USB wifi card driver which was for XP 64bit.

Another restart and bam:

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So what is this and how can I recover from this?
Booting Ubuntu in recovery mode will produce the same error.

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answered 3 Years ago hergy · Accepted Answer

This is probably due to a bug in the driver or in ndiswrapper. Have you Googled, to see if other people have had success using ndiswrapper with that same device/driver?

To recover, basically: boot a Live CD, chroot into your installation, remove offending driver. Say your root partition is /dev/sda1, then after booting the Live CD, do

sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt sudo mount -t proc none /mnt/proc sudo mount -o bind /dev /mnt/dev sudo chroot /mnt /bin/bash

(If the second command fails, it's probably because you mounted the wrong partition in the first one.) This will give you a root shell in your installed system, in which you can remove the offending driver from ndiswrapper, or even uninstall ndiswrapper altogether. When you are done, exit from the chrooted shell, unmount everything:

sudo umount /mnt/proc sudo umount /mnt/dev sudo umount /mnt

and reboot normally.