--- Rick Stevens rstevens@vitalstream.com wrote:
On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 16:00 -0400, James Pifer wrote:
I've tried getting my builtin wireless card in my
laptop working before
and was close, but could never get it working. I
would REALLY like to
use my laptop without being tied to my desk.
Previously I could load the
drivers, using ndiswrapper, and get all the way up
to loading it, but I
could never get an ipaddress. So I figured I would
try again but this
time remove wep and see if can connect.
lspci shows me this:
02:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation
BCM4306 802.11b/g
Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03)
When I try to modprobe ndiswrapper the machine
locks up hard. After a
reboot I see this in /var/log/messages:
Oct 27 15:09:45 kernel: ndiswrapper version 1.4rc4
loaded
(preempt=no,smp=yes) Oct 27 15:09:45 kernel: ndiswrapper: driver bcmwl5
(Broadcom,10/20/2004,
3.70.22.0) loaded Oct 27 15:09:45 kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt
0000:02:02.0[A] -> GSI 18
(level, low) -> IRQ 193 Oct 27 15:09:45 kernel: ndiswrapper: using irq 193
Uh, oh. Smells like an apic problem to me.
I also tried reinstalling ndiswrapper but still
get the same thing. If
it's an IRQ problem, any suggestions on how to
handle it?
Gee, I don't get that. I'm using a Fujitsu Lifebook C2200 on the stock FC4 kernel:
[root@golem ~]# uname -r 2.6.13-1.1532_FC4
[root@golem ~]# lspci
<snip> 00:12.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02) </snip>
[root@golem ~]# tail /var/log/messages
<snip> Oct 27 14:04:01 golem kernel: ndiswrapper version 1.4rc4 loaded (preempt=no,smp=no) Oct 27 14:04:01 golem kernel: ndiswrapper: driver bcmwl5 (Broadcom,02/12/2003, 3.10.39.7) loaded Oct 27 14:04:01 golem kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:12.0[A] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 Oct 27 14:04:01 golem kernel: ndiswrapper: using irq 11 Oct 27 14:04:02 golem kernel: wlan0: vendor: '' Oct 27 14:04:02 golem kernel: wlan0: ndiswrapper ethernet device 00:90:96:57:e9:ff using driver bcmwl5, 14E4:4320:10CF:1204.5.conf Oct 27 14:04:02 golem kernel: ndiswrapper (set_auth_mode:685): setting auth mode failed (C0010015) Oct 27 14:04:02 golem kernel: wlan0: encryption modes supported: none </snip>
Any other suggestions?
Although we appear to have the same wireless chipset, I am using an older Broadcom driver. It works with the default 4K stack kernel. I'd try a couple of things:
- Try booting with the "noapic" option specified on
the boot line
- Try recompiling your kernel with 8K stacks
enabled
I'd not recomend recompiling the kernel with 8k stacks based on advise I received. ..something about future kernels may require 4k stacks.
Also, I have basically the same chipset on an HP zv5000 and run it with not problems. just recently upgraded ndiswrapper from v1.2 to v1.4.
If you'd like to try my older Broadcom driver, I suppose I could send it to you. Contact me off-list if you wish to have it.
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- Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer
rstevens@vitalstream.com -
- VitalStream, Inc.
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Huked on foniks reely wurked for
me! -
looks like you have a release candidate version of ndiswrapper. may not be related but you could get stable release of 1.4
also, how are you installing ndiswraper? I've had great success compiling from source available at http://ndiswrapper.sf.net
you can also look for a suitable windows driver here: https://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/drivers.php
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