Thread: [Ndiswrapper-general] Mandrake 10.1 & Broadcom BCM 4306
Status: Beta
Brought to you by:
pgiri
From: Jeff A. <Jef...@am...> - 2005-01-17 23:19:13
|
Hello all, I am in the midst of configuring Mandrake 10.1 on my Compaq Presario 3050 laptop. The laptop has embedded wireless, which is a Broadcom BCM 4306 802.11b/g card, reported by lspci as follows: 00:09.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02) lspci -n reports: 00:09.0 Class 0280: 14e4:4320 (rev 02) I installed ndiswrapper using the sourceforge download. Everything seemed to go OK. I grabbed the driver for the card from here: http://www.silfreed.net/download/hpzt3000cto/SP23107A.tar.gz When I ran ndiswrapper -i on the .inf file it didn't complain and it did populate the /etc/ndiswrapper directory. ndiswrapper -l reports: Installed ndis drivers: bcmwl5a driver present, hardware present I can run modprobe ndiswrapper with no ill effects and no errors. However iwconfig reports no wireless adapters: lo no wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. eth1 no wireless extensions. sit0 no wireless extensions. Looking at the system log I worry that I have the wrong ndiswrapper installed. I see "ndiswrapper version 0.8 loaded" in the log, but I would expect version 0.11. I know Mandrake 10 is supposed to come with a version of ndiswrapper, but I don't see it installed: rpm -qa | grep ndis returns nothing. I suspect that this is the problem nonetheless, but I'm not sure how to go about fixing it. Either that or there are problems with power management. Anyone have any thoughts? Thanks. - Jeff |
From: Ian M. <im...@gm...> - 2005-01-18 00:51:02
|
Have you brought the interface up with something like: ifconfig wlan0 up where wlan0 is the name of your interface - would guess it might be eth1 on your box.... This is one of the mistakes I made with this card..... On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 15:19:07 -0800, Jeff Allison <Jef...@am...> wrote: > Hello all, > > I am in the midst of configuring Mandrake 10.1 on my Compaq Presario > 3050 laptop. The laptop has embedded wireless, which is a Broadcom BCM > 4306 802.11b/g card, reported by lspci as follows: > > 00:09.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g > Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02) > > lspci -n reports: > > 00:09.0 Class 0280: 14e4:4320 (rev 02) > > I installed ndiswrapper using the sourceforge download. Everything > seemed to go OK. I grabbed the driver for the card from here: > http://www.silfreed.net/download/hpzt3000cto/SP23107A.tar.gz When I ran > ndiswrapper -i on the .inf file it didn't complain and it did populate > the /etc/ndiswrapper directory. ndiswrapper -l reports: > > Installed ndis drivers: > bcmwl5a driver present, hardware present > > I can run modprobe ndiswrapper with no ill effects and no errors. > However iwconfig reports no wireless adapters: > lo no wireless extensions. > > eth0 no wireless extensions. > > eth1 no wireless extensions. > > sit0 no wireless extensions. > > Looking at the system log I worry that I have the wrong ndiswrapper > installed. I see "ndiswrapper version 0.8 loaded" in the log, but I > would expect version 0.11. I know Mandrake 10 is supposed to come with > a version of ndiswrapper, but I don't see it installed: rpm -qa | grep > ndis returns nothing. > > I suspect that this is the problem nonetheless, but I'm not sure how to > go about fixing it. Either that or there are problems with power > management. Anyone have any thoughts? > > Thanks. > > - Jeff > > ------------------------------------------------------- > The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues > Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. > It's fun and FREE -- well, almost....http://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt > _______________________________________________ > Ndiswrapper-general mailing list > Ndi...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ndiswrapper-general > |
From: Jeff A. <Jef...@am...> - 2005-01-18 17:45:07
|
Ian McDonald wrote: > Have you brought the interface up with something like: > ifconfig wlan0 up > where wlan0 is the name of your interface - would guess it might be > eth1 on your box.... > This is one of the mistakes I made with this card..... Ian, Thanks, but this had no effect. The command executed silently but didn't seem to change anything. - Jeff |
From: Scott L. <hel...@pa...> - 2005-01-18 02:29:56
|
On Monday 17 January 2005 3:19 pm, Jeff Allison wrote: > > Looking at the system log I worry that I have the wrong ndiswrapper > installed. I see "ndiswrapper version 0.8 loaded" in the log, but I > would expect version 0.11. I know Mandrake 10 is supposed to come with > a version of ndiswrapper, but I don't see it installed: rpm -qa | grep > ndis returns nothing. > That happened to me, but on SuSE 9.1. Apparently,0.80 was placed in a different place than 0.11, so I ended up with two .ko files for ndiswrapper. /lib/modules/2.6.5-7.111-default/extra/ndiswrapper.ko /lib/modules/2.6.5-7.111-default/misc/ndiswrapper.ko I had to delete them both, then completely reinstall ndiswrapper and when I did so, things started working properly. Not sure if you have a similar situation, but it sure sounds like it may be. Scott -- POPFile, the OpenSource EMail Classifier http://popfile.sourceforge.net/ Linux 2.6.8-24.10-default x86_64 |
From: Jeff A. <Jef...@am...> - 2005-01-18 17:47:47
|
Scott Leighton wrote: > On Monday 17 January 2005 3:19 pm, Jeff Allison wrote: >>Looking at the system log I worry that I have the wrong ndiswrapper >>installed. I see "ndiswrapper version 0.8 loaded" in the log, but I >>would expect version 0.11. I know Mandrake 10 is supposed to come with >>a version of ndiswrapper, but I don't see it installed: rpm -qa | grep >>ndis returns nothing. > That happened to me, but on SuSE 9.1. Apparently,0.80 was placed > in a different place than 0.11, so I ended up with two .ko files for > ndiswrapper. > /lib/modules/2.6.5-7.111-default/extra/ndiswrapper.ko > /lib/modules/2.6.5-7.111-default/misc/ndiswrapper.ko > I had to delete them both, then completely reinstall ndiswrapper > and when I did so, things started working properly. > Not sure if you have a similar situation, but it sure sounds like it > may be. Scott, Thanks for the suggestion. I looked for ndiswrapper.ko and didn't find one, but there was an ndiswrapper.ko.gz. I removed that and redid the installation. Now it fails with: FATAL: Could not open '/lib/modules/2.6.8.1-12mdk/kernel/3rdparty/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper.ko.gz': No such file or directory Oops. One other note, which I should have mentioned before. When I do the make install, I get an error: make[3]: Entering directory `/home/jallison/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper-0.12/driver' make[3]: *** No rule to make target `modules'. Stop. If I grep Makefile for modules I find nothing, so there truly is no target for modules. Not sure what the intent is here, but it sure sounds like a problem - Jeff > Scott |
From: Scott L. <hel...@pa...> - 2005-01-19 01:54:36
|
On Tuesday 18 January 2005 9:47 am, Jeff Allison wrote: > Scott Leighton wrote: > > On Monday 17 January 2005 3:19 pm, Jeff Allison wrote: > >>Looking at the system log I worry that I have the wrong ndiswrapper > >>installed. I see "ndiswrapper version 0.8 loaded" in the log, but I > >>would expect version 0.11. I know Mandrake 10 is supposed to come with > >>a version of ndiswrapper, but I don't see it installed: rpm -qa | grep > >>ndis returns nothing. > > > > That happened to me, but on SuSE 9.1. Apparently,0.80 was placed > > in a different place than 0.11, so I ended up with two .ko files for > > ndiswrapper. > > > > /lib/modules/2.6.5-7.111-default/extra/ndiswrapper.ko > > /lib/modules/2.6.5-7.111-default/misc/ndiswrapper.ko > > > > I had to delete them both, then completely reinstall ndiswrapper > > and when I did so, things started working properly. > > > > Not sure if you have a similar situation, but it sure sounds like it > > may be. > > Scott, > > Thanks for the suggestion. I looked for ndiswrapper.ko and didn't find > one, but there was an ndiswrapper.ko.gz. I removed that and redid the > installation. Now it fails with: > > FATAL: Could not open > '/lib/modules/2.6.8.1-12mdk/kernel/3rdparty/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper.ko.gz': > No such file or directory > > Oops. > Looks like your problem is completely different than mine, my guess is that your distro keeps the ko file gzipped, and that since you later mentioned that your make install is failing, you never really install 0.12, which fully explains why your log says version 0.8 installed, it _is_ the one that is installed (unlike my situation, where both versions had a ko file and 0.80 was the one that got loaded). > One other note, which I should have mentioned before. When I do the > make install, I get an error: > > make[3]: Entering directory > `/home/jallison/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper-0.12/driver' > make[3]: *** No rule to make target `modules'. Stop. > > If I grep Makefile for modules I find nothing, so there truly is no > target for modules. Not sure what the intent is here, but it sure > sounds like a problem > That's your problem.... you need to solve it and unfortunately, I can't help, I'm not at all familiar with Mandrake and it makes and installs fine here. Hopefully someone on the list will have a pointer for you. -- POPFile, the OpenSource EMail Classifier http://popfile.sourceforge.net/ Linux 2.6.8-24.10-default x86_64 |