Re: [Ndiswrapper-general] Problems with ndiswrapper 0.8 and linksys WPC54G under Mandrake 10

[Mike E. <mi...@ta...>]

OK, thanks to Toby and Jason for suggestions - still no luck though:

My ACPI setting in the kernel start-up parameters is acpi=ht - which I think
is right for a P4.  Hardware is a Toshiba Satellite A30 notebook.  (I don't
know how global their model names and numbers are so apologies if that means
nothing outside the UK)  I note that during the boot process the card power
light is initially off, and then comes on.  I'm therefore guessing that the
bus is active.

I found an updated BIOS for my machine on the Toshiba site.  No detailed
info on what is fixed. I installed it anyway but no change.  (At least I
think no change I have recompiled ndiswrapper with DEBUG=1 to see if there
is anything more illuminating and it is blowing the message buffer size so I
don't see all of the same output reported before - I do still get the
"windows driver unable to initialise the device" bit at the end though.)

One thing I note from other people's recent postings is the need for kernel
2.6.7.  I'm running the standard Mandrake 10 - which 'uname -r' reports as
2.6.3-7mdk is this likely to be the problem?  If so I guess I have to try to
get a more recent kernel.  Not done that before so anyone working with
Mandrake please tell me how.  (I believe they customise their kernel so it's
probably not wise to go getting a standard one, or is it?)

The other thing that I notice is that I don't seem to have the wireless
tools, at least 'whereis iwconfig' reports nothing.  Any guidance on either
of these points, or any other suggestions come to that will be most welcome.

MikeE

P.S.  Interesting to note that the Toshiba site offers two methods of
updating the BIOS.  Method 1 (recommended - hmph!) uses a Windows installer.
Method 2 creates a floppy disk which will subsequently do the install.  This
means that if you don't have a floppy disk drive - and I don't - and you
haven't retained a Windows partition - fortunately, although regrettably I
have - you are stuck.  I guess that Windows partition gets to live a bit
longer.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Toby Collett" <tco...@di...>
To: <ndi...@li...>
Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 10:12 PM
Subject: Re: [Ndiswrapper-general] Problems with ndiswrapper 0.8 and linksys
WPC54G under Mandrake 10


> Hi,
> Ive had problems on a desktop with "buggy MP table" causing USB to fail,
this was
> solved by updating the BIOS, I would check with the manufacturer to see if
there is
> an updated BIOS and try that.
> This problem was also cause ACPI to not function correctly from memory so
you may
> gat all sorts of other benefits from a bios update.
>
> Toby
>
> Jason Boxman wrote:
>
> >On Tuesday 22 June 2004 07:31, Mike Evans wrote:
> ><snip>
> >
> >>The problem I get when I try to modprobe is:
> >>
> >>ndiswrapper: no version for "struct_module" found: kernel tainted.
> >>ndiswrapper version 0.8 loaded
> >>ndiswrapper adding bcmwl5.sys
> >>PCI: Enabling device 0000:03:00.0 (0000 -> 0002)
> >>PCI BIOS passed nonexistent PCI bus 3!
> >
> >         ^^^^
> >That sounds bad.
> >
> >>PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin @ of device 0000:03:00.0. Probably
> >>buggy MP table. PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:03:00.0 to 64
> >>ndiswrapper: Windows driver couldn't initialize the device
> >>bcmwl5.sys: probe of 0000:03:00.0 failed with error -22
> >
> >
> >Did you try enabling / disabling ACPI?
> >
> ><snip>
> >
> >>MikeE
> >
> >
>
>
>
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