Re: [Ndiswrapper-general] Multiple drivers?

[Jonas P. <za...@xm...>]

Hi again,

Giridhar Pemmasani wrote:
> Multiple drivers controlling multiple cards as well as single driver
> controlling multiple cards are possible. 

Thanks, I've now had it figured out - I had an issue with the if_name
option, but it is now sorted.

I still have one really wierd thing, though:

On my Gentoo system I can load both bcmwl5 (for internal BCM4303) and
bcmwl5a (for Belkin CardBus) and they work fine.

On my Smoothwall (seems to be a stripped down RH8 - I've used an old RH8
system to build the ndiswrapper binaries) the bcmwl5a with the same
Belkin card worked a fair number of times when I experimented initially,
but then suddenly it has decided to refuse setting essid. I think I've
tried all the obvious tricks in the FAQ, but to no avail, ut just says
"ESSID:off/any" (in the process I have rebooted a number of times to be
on the safe side).

Interesting to note was that when I initially succeeded the AP was
blocking the Mac-address and the essid was NOT broadcasted, but relaxing
 this doesn't help. Also note that my AP is an old AirPort, only
supporting 11(b) speeds, but that was no problem initially. Now that I
can not set essid I can not set rate either. Here is my dmesg snippet
after trying to set essid and rate 11:

ndiswrapper version 1.1 loaded (preempt=no,smp=yes)
cs: cb_alloc(bus 2): vendor 0x14e4, device 0x4320
PCI: Enabling device 02:00.0 (0000 -> 0002)
ndiswrapper: driver bcmwl5a (Broadcom,06/25/2004, 3.40.73.0) loaded
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 02:00.0 to 64
ndiswrapper: using irq 11
divert: allocating divert_blk for wlan0
wlan0: ndiswrapper ethernet device 00:11:50:3a:fe:b7 using driver
bcmwl5a, configuration file 14E4:4320.5.conf
wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP, WPA with TKIP, WPA with AES/CCMP
ndiswrapper (iw_set_bitrate:413): setting bit rate failed (C00000BB)

Note: I have no need for smp really, but that's the way the kernel came.

I guess it must be something silly that has changed, but I can't figure
out what it is. There seems to be no interupt conflict (only the CardBus
bridge is also on irq 11) and cardctl seems happy about
config/status/ident. I'd really appreciate any tips on how to hunt this
down. Let me know if you need further details.

				/ Jonas
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