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 0000:00:14.0: Found 0000:00:14.0 device
ndiswrapper: driver bcmwl5 (Broadcom,03/23/2006, 4.40.19.0) loaded
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:06:02.0[A] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 177
ndiswrapper: using IRQ 177
Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 6.2, id: 0x1a0b1, caps:
0xa04713/0x200000
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 0000:00:14.5[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: 0xf7840000
ndiswrapper (NdisWriteErrorLogEntry:234): code: 0xf7840000
ndiswrapper (miniport_init:270): couldn't initialize device: C0000001
ndiswrapper (pnp_start_device:426): Windows driver couldn't initialize
the device (C0000001)
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-common 1.37-1
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-source 1.37-1
Source for the ndiswrapper linux kernel modu
ii ndiswrapper-utils-1.9 1.37-1
Userspace utilities for the ndiswrapper linu





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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 0000:00:14.0: Found 0000:00:14.0 device
> ndiswrapper: driver bcmwl5 (Broadcom,03/23/2006, 4.40.19.0) loaded
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:06:02.0[A] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 177
> ndiswrapper: using IRQ 177
> Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 6.2, id: 0x1a0b1, caps:
> 0xa04713/0x200000
> 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 0000:00:14.5[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: 0xf7840000
> ndiswrapper (NdisWriteErrorLogEntry:234): code: 0xf7840000
> ndiswrapper (miniport_init:270): couldn't initialize device: C0000001
> ndiswrapper (pnp_start_device:426): Windows driver couldn't initialize
> the device (C0000001)
> 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-common 1.37-1
> 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-source 1.37-1
> Source for the ndiswrapper linux kernel modu
> ii ndiswrapper-utils-1.9 1.37-1
> Userspace utilities for the ndiswrapper linu
>
>
>
>
>


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On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 12:47:08 -0800
Freddy Freeloader <fredddy@cableone.net> 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


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Celejar wrote:

> On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 12:47:08 -0800
> Freddy Freeloader <fredddy@cableone.net> 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
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On 3/12/07, Jan Schledermann <spamtrap@schledermann.org> wrote:
>
> Celejar wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 12:47:08 -0800
> > Freddy Freeloader <fredddy@cableone.net> 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.

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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


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L.V.Gandhi wrote:
> On 3/12/07, Jan Schledermann <spamtrap@schledermann.org> wrote:
>>
>> Celejar wrote:
>>
>> > On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 12:47:08 -0800
>> > Freddy Freeloader <fredddy@cableone.net> 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.


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On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 05:02:00 -0700
Freddy Freeloader <fredddy@cableone.net> wrote:

> L.V.Gandhi wrote:
> > On 3/12/07, Jan Schledermann <spamtrap@schledermann.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> Celejar wrote:
> >>
> >> > On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 12:47:08 -0800
> >> > Freddy Freeloader <fredddy@cableone.net> 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


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