Thread: [Ndiswrapper-general] Found no way to get BCM4318 working
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From: Helfer T. <hel...@fr...> - 2006-10-02 19:30:50
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Hello excuse me for my poor english. I recently bought an Asus ZT32 laptop based on an amd64 processor. Its is shipped with an BCM4318 wifi card. I have installed ubuntu drapper drake on it. I have tried to configured the wifi card according to tutorials found on the ubuntu wiki and on the web in general, but, even with the help of the french ubuntu mailing list, did not get it working. $lspci 0000:03:03.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02) I have read that this card is not supported by the bcm43xx driver, so blacklisted it and tried to use ndiswrapper with a 64 driver. $ cat /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist # knock out the default broadcom driver that doesn't work blacklist bcm43xx $ ndiswrapper -l Installed ndis drivers: bcmwl5 driver present, hardware present First thing strange, dmesg talks about wlan0 but there is no such device available in iwconfig : $ dmesg [ 43.693382] ndiswrapper version 1.8 loaded (preempt=yes,smp=yes) [ 43.742033] ndiswrapper (load_pe_images:571): fixing KI_USER_SHARED_DATA address in the driver [ 43.743627] ndiswrapper: driver bcmwl5 (Broadcom,02/11/2005, 3.100.64.0) loaded [ 43.743912] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:03.0[A] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 [ 43.751897] ndiswrapper: using irq 11 [ 45.009914] wlan0: vendor: '' [ 45.032696] wlan0: ndiswrapper ethernet device 00:17:31:30:08:7c using driver bcmwl5, 14E4:4318.5.conf [ 45.054604] wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP; TKIP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK; AES/CCMP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK $ iwconfig lo no wireless extensions. eth1 no wireless extensions. sit0 no wireless extensions. eth0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:off/any Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power:25 dBm RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:off Power Management:off Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0 Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 So I used eth0 instead of wlan0 and changed /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper like this : cat /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper #alias wlan0 ndiswrapper alias eth0 ndiswrapper That did not change the output of dmesg.... Well this is what I can say : - i can't set essid. (iwconfig eth0 essid ... has no effect) - using iwconfig eth0 ndis_reset says : # iwconfig eth0 ndis_reset Error : unrecognised wireless request "ndis_reset" - i have put noapic/nolapic Here is my /etc/network/interfaces : iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.0.10 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 192.168.0.254 network 192.168.0.0 rate 11M wireless-essid reseauWifi wireless-mode Managed wireless-channel 11 wireless-keymode restricted wireless-key XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX This is correct, i use it on my another laptop without any problem. The card works well under windows.. Is there anybody that can help me ? Thanks Helfer Thomas |
From: Thomas B. <ber...@fr...> - 2006-10-02 20:05:37
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Hi, the problem may be, that your notebook have a wireless-button. Download and install acer_acpi and activate wlan by typing: acho "enabled : 1" > /proc/acpi/acer/wireless Greetings Thomas > Hello > > excuse me for my poor english. > > I recently bought an Asus ZT32 laptop based on an amd64 processor. Its > is shipped with an BCM4318 wifi card. I have installed ubuntu drapper > drake on it. I have tried to configured the wifi card according to > tutorials found on the ubuntu wiki and on the web in general, but, even > with the help of the french ubuntu mailing list, did not get it working. > > $lspci > 0000:03:03.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce > One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02) > > I have read that this card is not supported by the bcm43xx driver, so > blacklisted it and tried to use ndiswrapper with a 64 driver. > $ cat /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist > # knock out the default broadcom driver that doesn't work > blacklist bcm43xx > $ ndiswrapper -l > Installed ndis drivers: > bcmwl5 driver present, hardware present > > First thing strange, dmesg talks about wlan0 but there is no such device > available in iwconfig : > $ dmesg > [ 43.693382] ndiswrapper version 1.8 loaded (preempt=yes,smp=yes) > [ 43.742033] ndiswrapper (load_pe_images:571): fixing > KI_USER_SHARED_DATA address in the driver > [ 43.743627] ndiswrapper: driver bcmwl5 (Broadcom,02/11/2005, > 3.100.64.0) loaded > [ 43.743912] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:03.0[A] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI > 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 > [ 43.751897] ndiswrapper: using irq 11 > [ 45.009914] wlan0: vendor: '' > [ 45.032696] wlan0: ndiswrapper ethernet device 00:17:31:30:08:7c > using driver bcmwl5, 14E4:4318.5.conf > [ 45.054604] wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP; TKIP with WPA, > WPA2, WPA2PSK; AES/CCMP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK > $ iwconfig > lo no wireless extensions. > > eth1 no wireless extensions. > > sit0 no wireless extensions. > > eth0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:off/any > Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: > Not-Associated > Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power:25 dBm > RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off > Encryption key:off > Power Management:off > Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0 > Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 > Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 > > So I used eth0 instead of wlan0 and changed /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper > like this : > cat /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper > #alias wlan0 ndiswrapper > alias eth0 ndiswrapper > > That did not change the output of dmesg.... > > Well this is what I can say : > - i can't set essid. (iwconfig eth0 essid ... has no effect) > - using iwconfig eth0 ndis_reset says : > # iwconfig eth0 ndis_reset > Error : unrecognised wireless request "ndis_reset" > - i have put noapic/nolapic > > Here is my /etc/network/interfaces : > iface eth0 inet static > address 192.168.0.10 > netmask 255.255.255.0 > gateway 192.168.0.254 > network 192.168.0.0 > rate 11M > wireless-essid reseauWifi > wireless-mode Managed > wireless-channel 11 > wireless-keymode restricted > wireless-key XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX > > This is correct, i use it on my another laptop without any problem. The > card works well under windows.. > > Is there anybody that can help me ? > > Thanks > > Helfer Thomas > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Ndiswrapper-general mailing list > Ndi...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ndiswrapper-general -- Thomas Berger <ber...@fr...> |