Evening all, I'm having some issues getting my internal wlan card to work with SUSE10 on my cheap HP laptop. It has a Broadcom chipset, which forces me to use ndiswrapper - not a big issue, or so I thought.
I duely dug out the driver for the Broadcom chipset, and proceeded to go through the motions: # ndiswrapper -l No drivers installed # ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf Installing bcmwl5 Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2 Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2 Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2 Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2 Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2 Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2 Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2 Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2 Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2 Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2 Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2 Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2 Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2 Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2 Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2 Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2 Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2 Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2 Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2 I'm not sure, but I think that whole Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2 isn't a good thing - anyone know? # ndiswrapper -l Installed ndis drivers: bcmwl5 driver present, hardware present All good or is it? # modprobe ndiswrapper This produces the following errors in /var/log/messages: Apr 20 18:23:09 typhoon kernel: ndiswrapper: module not supported by Novell, setting U taint flag. Apr 20 18:23:09 typhoon kernel: ndiswrapper version 1.2 loaded (preempt=no,smp=no) Apr 20 18:23:09 typhoon kernel: ndiswrapper (import:245): unknown symbol: ntoskrnl.exe:strrchr Apr 20 18:23:09 typhoon kernel: ndiswrapper (import:245): unknown symbol: ntoskrnl.exe:MmFreeContiguousMemorySpecifyCache Apr 20 18:23:09 typhoon kernel: ndiswrapper (import:245): unknown symbol: ntoskrnl.exe:MmAllocateContiguousMemorySpecifyCache Apr 20 18:23:09 typhoon kernel: ndiswrapper (import:245): unknown symbol: ntoskrnl.exe:MmGetPhysicalAddress Apr 20 18:23:09 typhoon kernel: ndiswrapper (load_sys_files:520): unable to prepare driver 'bcmwl5' Apr 20 18:23:09 typhoon kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000040 Apr 20 18:23:09 typhoon kernel: printing eip: Apr 20 18:23:09 typhoon kernel: e079b650 Apr 20 18:23:09 typhoon kernel: *pde = 00000000 Apr 20 18:23:09 typhoon kernel: Oops: 0000 [#1] Apr 20 18:23:09 typhoon kernel: Modules linked in: ndiswrapper novfs speedstep_lib freq_table ipv6 snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_seq snd_seq_device button battery ac af_packet edd joydev pcmcia firmware_class ohci1394 ieee1394 yenta_socket rsrc_nonstatic pcmcia_core b44 mii generic snd_intel8x0 snd_ac97_codec snd_ac97_bus ehci_hcd snd_pcm snd_timer snd soundcore snd_page_alloc uhci_hcd usbcore intel_agp agpgart parport_pc lp parport dm_mod reiserfs fan thermal ide_cd cdrom processor piix ide_disk ide_core Apr 20 18:23:09 typhoon kernel: CPU: 0 Apr 20 18:23:09 typhoon kernel: EIP: 0060:[<e079b650>] Tainted: G U VLI Apr 20 18:23:09 typhoon kernel: EFLAGS: 00010246 (2.6.13-15.8-default) Apr 20 18:23:09 typhoon kernel: EIP is at unload_ndis_driver+0x50/0xb0 [ndiswrapper] Apr 20 18:23:09 typhoon kernel: eax: 00000034 ebx: c07bdc40 ecx: 00000001 edx: 00000000 Apr 20 18:23:09 typhoon kernel: esi: cda8800c edi: 00000000 ebp: c07bdc40 esp: ceb3ff34 Apr 20 18:23:09 typhoon kernel: ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Apr 20 18:23:09 typhoon kernel: Process loadndisdriver (pid: 20848, threadinfo=ceb3e000 task=d496ba80) Apr 20 18:23:09 typhoon kernel: Stack: c07bdc40 e07bd000 cda88308 ceb3e000 e079ba61 00040004 e07ac393 cda8800c Apr 20 18:23:09 typhoon kernel: 00000000 e07bd000 b7d94008 e079c1b4 e079c110 e079c110 e079c110 d5581300 Apr 20 18:23:09 typhoon kernel: c0169a6e b7d94008 d5581300 00000000 c0169b7f fffffff7 fffffff7 fffffff7 Apr 20 18:23:09 typhoon kernel: Call Trace: Apr 20 18:23:09 typhoon kernel: [<e079ba61>] load_ndis_driver+0xf1/0x1f0 [ndiswrapper] Apr 20 18:23:09 typhoon kernel: [<e079c1b4>] wrapper_ioctl+0xa4/0xb0 [ndiswrapper] Apr 20 18:23:09 typhoon kernel: [<e079c110>] wrapper_ioctl+0x0/0xb0 [ndiswrapper] Apr 20 18:23:09 typhoon kernel: [<e079c110>] wrapper_ioctl+0x0/0xb0 [ndiswrapper] Apr 20 18:23:09 typhoon kernel: [<e079c110>] wrapper_ioctl+0x0/0xb0 [ndiswrapper] Apr 20 18:23:09 typhoon kernel: [<c0169a6e>] do_ioctl+0x4e/0x60 Apr 20 18:23:09 typhoon kernel: [<c0169b7f>] vfs_ioctl+0x4f/0x1c0 Apr 20 18:23:09 typhoon kernel: [<c0169d27>] sys_ioctl+0x37/0x70 Apr 20 18:23:09 typhoon kernel: [<c0102d1b>] sysenter_past_esp+0x54/0x79 Apr 20 18:23:09 typhoon kernel: Code: df 8b 96 90 01 00 00 47 83 c3 38 39 fa 77 e3 8b be 74 02 00 00 85 ff 7f 3f 8b 86 78 02 00 00 85 c0 74 05 e8 13 92 9a df 8b 45 04 <8b> 58 0c 53 e8 67 5f 00 00 8d 45 1c 50 e8 be c8 00 00 8b 45 18 Apr 20 18:23:09 typhoon kernel: <3>ndiswrapper (ndiswrapper_load_driver:93): loadndiswrapper failed (11); check system log for messages from 'loadndisdriver' Apr 20 18:32:00 typhoon syslog-ng[4619]: STATS: dropped 0 Anyone got an idea as to where I'm going wrong? Needless to say I'm completely flumuxed! Thanks, Andy _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro
