Re: [Ndiswrapper-general] Dell 1450 Broadcom a/b/g (14e4:4324) almost works...

[Shawn A. <sha...@we...>]

Shawn,

We can share notes.

I'v got a Dell D600 with the True Mobile 1400.14e4:4324
Suse 8.w with kernel 2.4.20

I installed ndiswrappe 0.8 from source, just as documented.


I downloaded  R63259.EXE from Dell, which is the "1400" version, but I 
think this also covers the 1450, according to the bcmwl5a.inf

DriverVer=04/09/2004, 3.40.69.0
         CatalogFile=BCM43XXA.CAT

I then defined the card in YAST, or using /etc/sysconfig/network:


BOOTPROTO='dhcp'
MTU=''
REMOTE_IPADDR=''
STARTMODE='onboot'
UNIQUE='QOEa.OTMK_jUeId7'
WIRELESS='yes'
WIRELESS_ESSID='Nortel_de_wob_a'
WIRELESS_KEY='xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xx'
WIRELESS_MODE='Managed'
WIRELESS_NICK='Dell True Mobile 1400'
WIRELESS_NWID=''

Anyhow, it works sort-of, mostly. When I configure Encryption, the 
driver never recieves anything from the network, and most of the 
iwconfig commands fail, but at least the driver loads.

Hope this is helpful.










Shawn Curry wrote:
> First of all, I want to say thanks.  I appreciate your hard work; I will contribute to this project in one form or another.  Hopefully, it's something that I'm doing wrong and can be easily fixed.
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> This pcid (14e4:4324) is listed on your site as being a supported chipset, but I'm having problems.  I'm running fedora core 2, on a 2.6 custom smp kernel (with 8k stacks).  I have a 3.06 ghz p4HT, which shows up as 2 processors (hence the smp kernel) with a dual band internal broadcom(a/b/g).
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> I've tried 7 and 9 pre 1, they both do the same thing.  It works for a second, and eventually hangs (and hard locks my computer).  I've just downloaded 8, and will try that shortly.
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> It worked the longest on 7, I managed to go to google and do two searches.  It usually goes through the motions (connecting/transferring/connecting/etc) before it locks.  Maybe it's a coincidence, but it always seems to freeze on "connecting".
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> I've commited the cardinal sin of not writing down my error message, and I was unable to reproduce it.  The first time I restarted after ndiswrapper -m 'ing, (just now with 9pre1) while it was shutting down the services, I had repeated error messages from ndiswrapper.  It was something to the effect of spinning a lock it already owned.
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> I'll be here playing with it for a while; if 8 doesn't work I'll load up the source in Eclipse and see if I can find that error string.
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> Thanks,
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> Shawn
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