Re: ndiswrapper problem (solved)
I noticed there was an upgrade to the ndiswrapper source code and tools so installed them and m-a'ed a new ndiswrapper module into the kernel. Voila, problem solved. So, to whoever the developer is that is responsible for maintaining ndiswrapper, Thank you. You have solved but you didn't explain how you have made it, and I know dozens of people that are still knocking the wall with their heads because they don't know how to solve it. You have given no information on how you have solved . Stefano -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
bcm43xx vs NetworkManager (was Re: ndiswrapper problem)
On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 00:03 +, Hans du Plooy wrote: Bizarrely, the interface seems to lose power or something every 1-2 minutes. Not my connection to the AP - this is a lower level, it happens even if I'm running airodump-ng. All of a sudden I just see nothing. Only way to fix it is to rmmod and then modprobe bcm43xx Ok, after playing around a lot with the wireless on my notebook (Broacom 4318) I realised the above problem is not the bcm43xx driver, but NetworkManager. I'm not sure what it does, I can only imagine it scans for networks at regular intervals when it's not connected and somehow resets the card/driver. If I associate the card with an accesspoint using iwconfig and then do dhclient eth0, it picks up an address almost immediately, and works stably. But getting it to connect through NetworkManager is a pain. I have to keep retrying, and eventually (sometimes afer 20 or more tries) it will finally connect and work properly. Is anybody experiencing the same problem? Do note I'm rathe far from the AP, NetworkManager shows 4 bars. If I put up an AP in the same room it connects much quicker. Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ndiswrapper problem
L.V.Gandhi wrote: On 3/12/07, Jan Schledermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Celejar wrote: On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 12:47:08 -0800 Freddy Freeloader [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a problem with ndiswrapper on Sid. I have a built-in broadcom wireless chip in my laptop. I've been using ndiswrapper with it and it's worked fine. I also have a netgear wg11t Are you aware that the bcm43xx driver (included in recent kernels) supports Broadcom wireless chips natively? I'm using it with the built in Broadcom wireless chip on my laptop (Broadcom BCM4318 AirForce One 54g rev 02) and it works quite well. Celejar I used the kernel driver as well. It was a disaster om my Dell Inspiron 510m. In stead of 54Mbit I'd get only +-10Mbit due mainly to lost packages. Installing ndiswrapper solved the problem. Jan In my inspiron 600m also bcm43xx didn't work. I had to go to ndiswrapper. Yeah, bcm43xx is a real problem on my machine. I once got it to work, but only with open ap's, and since I won't run an open ap that was as far as that went. However, with newer kernels it makes my system very unstable. The system will hang for several seconds at a time and do it so often that the system is basically unusable, windows that are not maximized will jump around on the desktop, and other strange behavior. I've had to go with ndiswrapper to get it to work at all. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ndiswrapper problem
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 05:02:00 -0700 Freddy Freeloader [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: L.V.Gandhi wrote: On 3/12/07, Jan Schledermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Celejar wrote: On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 12:47:08 -0800 Freddy Freeloader [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a problem with ndiswrapper on Sid. I have a built-in broadcom wireless chip in my laptop. I've been using ndiswrapper with it and it's worked fine. I also have a netgear wg11t Are you aware that the bcm43xx driver (included in recent kernels) supports Broadcom wireless chips natively? I'm using it with the built in Broadcom wireless chip on my laptop (Broadcom BCM4318 AirForce One 54g rev 02) and it works quite well. Celejar I used the kernel driver as well. It was a disaster om my Dell Inspiron 510m. In stead of 54Mbit I'd get only +-10Mbit due mainly to lost packages. Installing ndiswrapper solved the problem. I thought that '54Mb' is only a theoretical maximmum, and that realistically 20 / 30 Mb is the best one can expect; 10 doesn't sound that bad, depending on the distance to the AP. What's the (actual, not reported) throughput with ndiswrapper? Jan In my inspiron 600m also bcm43xx didn't work. I had to go to ndiswrapper. Yeah, bcm43xx is a real problem on my machine. I once got it to work, but only with open ap's, and since I won't run an open ap that was as far as that went. However, with newer kernels it makes my system very unstable. The system will hang for several seconds at a time and do it so often that the system is basically unusable, windows that are not maximized will jump around on the desktop, and other strange behavior. I've had to go with ndiswrapper to get it to work at all. The truth is that so far I've only used it with an open AP (a public hot spot); I haven't tried it on my home network yet. I am using it with a 2.6.18 kernel, though, and I haven't noticed any instability. [Incidentally, I saw your posts regarding bcm43xx on d-l after I sent my message ...] Celejar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ndiswrapper problem
On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 12:47:08 -0800 Freddy Freeloader [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a problem with ndiswrapper on Sid. I have a built-in broadcom wireless chip in my laptop. I've been using ndiswrapper with it and it's worked fine. I also have a netgear wg11t Are you aware that the bcm43xx driver (included in recent kernels) supports Broadcom wireless chips natively? I'm using it with the built in Broadcom wireless chip on my laptop (Broadcom BCM4318 AirForce One 54g rev 02) and it works quite well. Celejar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ndiswrapper problem
Celejar wrote: On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 12:47:08 -0800 Freddy Freeloader [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a problem with ndiswrapper on Sid. I have a built-in broadcom wireless chip in my laptop. I've been using ndiswrapper with it and it's worked fine. I also have a netgear wg11t Are you aware that the bcm43xx driver (included in recent kernels) supports Broadcom wireless chips natively? I'm using it with the built in Broadcom wireless chip on my laptop (Broadcom BCM4318 AirForce One 54g rev 02) and it works quite well. Celejar I used the kernel driver as well. It was a disaster om my Dell Inspiron 510m. In stead of 54Mbit I'd get only +-10Mbit due mainly to lost packages. Installing ndiswrapper solved the problem. Jan -- ** Do NOT use the reply-to address. You'll end up in the trash can ** Mail me at: jan A.T schledermann D0T org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ndiswrapper problem
On 3/12/07, Jan Schledermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Celejar wrote: On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 12:47:08 -0800 Freddy Freeloader [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a problem with ndiswrapper on Sid. I have a built-in broadcom wireless chip in my laptop. I've been using ndiswrapper with it and it's worked fine. I also have a netgear wg11t Are you aware that the bcm43xx driver (included in recent kernels) supports Broadcom wireless chips natively? I'm using it with the built in Broadcom wireless chip on my laptop (Broadcom BCM4318 AirForce One 54g rev 02) and it works quite well. Celejar I used the kernel driver as well. It was a disaster om my Dell Inspiron 510m. In stead of 54Mbit I'd get only +-10Mbit due mainly to lost packages. Installing ndiswrapper solved the problem. Jan In my inspiron 600m also bcm43xx didn't work. I had to go to ndiswrapper. -- L.V.Gandhi http://lvgandhi.tripod.com/ linux user No.205042
Re: ndiswrapper problem
On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 11:24 -0500, Celejar wrote: Are you aware that the bcm43xx driver (included in recent kernels) supports Broadcom wireless chips natively? I'm using it with the built in Broadcom wireless chip on my laptop (Broadcom BCM4318 AirForce One 54g rev 02) and it works quite well. There are several revisions of that chip (hence the xx) and the driver doesn't work equally well on all. There are properly further sub-revisions too that is not shown by lspci - I have the same one as you and for me (up-to-date Etch with stock kernel as well as vanilla 2.6.21-rc2) it is unstable, fails to get an address from DHCP most of the time, has poor range and poor performance. Bizarrely, the interface seems to lose power or something every 1-2 minutes. Not my connection to the AP - this is a lower level, it happens even if I'm running airodump-ng. All of a sudden I just see nothing. Only way to fix it is to rmmod and then modprobe bcm43xx Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ndiswrapper problem (solved)
I noticed there was an upgrade to the ndiswrapper source code and tools so installed them and m-a'ed a new ndiswrapper module into the kernel. Voila, problem solved. So, to whoever the developer is that is responsible for maintaining ndiswrapper, Thank you. On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 12:47 -0800, Freddy Freeloader wrote: I have a problem with ndiswrapper on Sid. I have a built-in broadcom wireless chip in my laptop. I've been using ndiswrapper with it and it's worked fine. I also have a netgear wg11t usb wireless dongle. I have used it before in combination with ndiswrapper and the broadcom chip without problems, but it is now giving me problems. Here is what dmesg gives me. I'll put the output for the broadcom chip first and the the netgear chip. ndiswrapper version 1.30 loaded (preempt=no,smp=no) Real Time Clock Driver v1.12ac piix4_smbus :00:14.0: Found :00:14.0 device ndiswrapper: driver bcmwl5 (Broadcom,03/23/2006, 4.40.19.0) loaded ACPI: PCI Interrupt :06:02.0[A] - GSI 21 (level, low) - IRQ 177 ndiswrapper: using IRQ 177 Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 6.2, id: 0x1a0b1, caps: 0xa04713/0x20 input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /class/input/input2 ts: Compaq touchscreen protocol output wlan0: ethernet device 00:14:a5:6f:db:d0 using NDIS driver: bcmwl5, version: 0x4281300, NDIS version: 0x501, vendor: '', 14E4:4318.5.conf wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP; TKIP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK; AES/CCMP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK ndiswrapper: driver netwg11t (NETGEAR,01/07/2005,1.0.1.1007) loaded MC'97 0 converters and GPIO not ready (0x1) ACPI: PCI Interrupt :00:14.5[B] - GSI 17 (level, low) - IRQ 209 cs: IO port probe 0x100-0x3af: clean. cs: IO port probe 0x3e0-0x4ff: clean. cs: IO port probe 0x820-0x8ff: clean. cs: IO port probe 0xc00-0xcf7: excluding 0xc00-0xc07 0xc10-0xc17 0xc50-0xc57 0xc68-0xc6f 0xcd0-0xcdf cs: IO port probe 0xa00-0xaff: clean. ndiswrapper (NdisWriteErrorLogEntry:231): log: C0001389, count: 4, return_address: f8b32c6b ndiswrapper (NdisWriteErrorLogEntry:234): code: 0xdf9f8678 ndiswrapper (NdisWriteErrorLogEntry:234): code: 0x28 ndiswrapper (NdisWriteErrorLogEntry:234): code: 0xf784 ndiswrapper (NdisWriteErrorLogEntry:234): code: 0xf784 ndiswrapper (miniport_init:270): couldn't initialize device: C001 ndiswrapper (pnp_start_device:426): Windows driver couldn't initialize the device (C001) unregister_netdevice: device eth%d/df9f8000 never was registered ndiswrapper (miniport_halt:327): device df9f8280 is not initialized - not halting ndiswrapper: device eth%d removed ndiswrapper: probe of 3-1:1.0 failed with error -22 usbcore: registered new driver ndiswrapper I have both the atheros and netwg11t .inf's installed with ndiswrapper. Here is the output of ndiswrapper -l ndiswrapper -l athfmwdl : driver installed device (1385:4251) present bcmwl5 : driver installed device (14E4:4318) present (alternate driver: bcm43xx) netwg11t : driver installed device (1385:4251) present The ndiwrapper listing site seemingly says to install both the .inf and .sys files, but ndiswrapper gives me the following error with the .sys files. There are several of the .sys files and I have tried them all with the same result. couldn't get manufacturer section - installation may be incomplete ndiwrapper then reports the .sys driver to be invalid with running ndiswrapper -l uname -a Linux lappy 2.6.18-4-486 #1 Wed Feb 21 15:25:16 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux dpkg -l | grep ndiswrapper ii ndiswrapper-common1.37-1 Common scripts required to use the utilities ii ndiswrapper-modules-2.6.18-4-486 1.30-1+2.6.18.dfsg.1-9 Ndiswrapper linux kernel module ii ndiswrapper-source1.37-1 Source for the ndiswrapper linux kernel modu ii ndiswrapper-utils-1.9 1.37-1 Userspace utilities for the ndiswrapper linu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ndiswrapper-Problem
Gebhard Dettmar schrieb: Hallo, ein Kumpel ist für 2 Monate weg und ich soll Debian (Woody, Sarge muss ich mir mal bestellen) auf sein Laptop (HP Pavilion) installieren. Das ging auch so problemlos wie nie (2 Stunden , inkl. X) aber jetzt macht ndiswrapper Ärger (brauche ich für den Broadcom WLAN-Chip). Ich habe ndiswrapper 1.1-1.5 von Sourceforge runtergeladen - überall dasselbe: bei debian/rules binary-moduls kommt -- warning: unnamed struct/union that defines no instances und warning: malformed `#pragma pack' -- debian/rules binary-utils dagegen bringt mir ein .deb Ich habe kernel 2.6.14.2 incl. kernel-headers + die neusten wireless-tools (die hier aber noch keine Rolle spielen), und weiß nicht weiter. Dank im voraus und Gruß an alle Gebhard Woody ist veraltet, es könnte sein das ndiswrapper deswegen Probleme macht. Das aktuelle stable ist Sarge, kannst du dir von www.debian.org laden. (Am besten die netinstall cd, die komplett Version sind 14 Cds oder so. Du brauchst davon für die Installation des Grundsystem aber nur die erste) Bei mir läuft ndiswrapper unter sarge ohne Probleme. Gruß, Fabian -- Haeufig gestellte Fragen und Antworten (FAQ): http://www.de.debian.org/debian-user-german-FAQ/ Zum AUSTRAGEN schicken Sie eine Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] mit dem Subject unsubscribe. Probleme? Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] (engl)
Re: ndiswrapper-Problem
On Wednesday 30 November 2005 16:33, Fabian Franzen wrote: Gebhard Dettmar schrieb: Hallo, ein [...] Woody ist veraltet, es könnte sein das ndiswrapper deswegen Probleme macht. Das aktuelle stable ist Sarge, kannst du dir von www.debian.org laden. (Am besten die netinstall cd, die komplett Version sind 14 Cds oder so. Du brauchst davon für die Installation des Grundsystem aber nur die erste) Deswegen sag ich ja: bestellen. Ich habe hier ein Modem, LAN auf Arbeit. Da wollte ich mir letzte Woche jdk-1.5 runterladen, also 120MB. Nach 10minütiger Rauchpause hatte er 1%, da hab ich abgebrochen. Wenn, mache ich das mit update/upgrade, die Beschreibung hab ich mir schon durchgelesen (erst mal aptitude von Woody, das updaten usw.), aber da muss ich mal morgens um 6 ins Institut, da ist unser Netz noch schnell ;-( Die Sache ist aber die: die Sourcen von z.B. ndiswrapper-1.1 sind von 2004. Das muss doch für Woody gewesen sein. Außerdem hätten sie sonst was von gcc =3.4, oder was auch immer Sarge hat, geschrieben Bei mir läuft ndiswrapper unter sarge ohne Probleme. Laut Google läuft das bei jedem ohne Probleme. Nur bei mir nicht *schluchz* Gruß, Fabian dito Gebhard -- You should go home.
