Re: [gentoo-user] [query] kernel-2.6.24 + ndiswrapper
On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 23:31 +0530, dell core2duo wrote: On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 7:28 PM, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2008-02-09 at 15:47 -0600, Dan Farrell wrote: On Sat, 9 Feb 2008 13:28:39 +0100 Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW, I am more interested to get things working. Quality would be my second priority. As I said before, I did not have any problem (unfortunately, I cannot access the hardware now and check the bandwidth issue). I have not yet gotten the new driver to work, though admittedly I didn't have much time to try and so went for ndiswrapper pretty quickly. how did you get ndiswrapper to work? It worked for me for 2.6.23, but not for 2.6.24. I have a BCM4306 and I'm having some trouble getting the kernel driver to work, so I'd like to use ndiswrapper in the mean time. I guess there are some problems with ndiswrapper on kernel-2.4.26. I didn't get ndiswraper worked with kernel-2.4.26. Oh, I thought you meant ndis with 2.4.26. did you tried kernel b43 module ?? Read below links, these may help you. I use b44 for my eth0 (always have). The problem with ndiswrapper was that b44 was grabbing wlan0 before ndis could. I couldn't ping over the wlan so I assumed b44 didn't work, but I was just playing around with routes, and I have managed to get both eth0 and wlan0 working with b44 together (no ndis). If you understood that sentence, congratulations! so no more ndis it seems! thanks, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au An engineer is someone who does list processing in FORTRAN. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [query] kernel-2.6.24 + ndiswrapper
On Feb 18, 2008 5:59 PM, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 23:31 +0530, dell core2duo wrote: On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 7:28 PM, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2008-02-09 at 15:47 -0600, Dan Farrell wrote: On Sat, 9 Feb 2008 13:28:39 +0100 Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW, I am more interested to get things working. Quality would be my second priority. As I said before, I did not have any problem (unfortunately, I cannot access the hardware now and check the bandwidth issue). I have not yet gotten the new driver to work, though admittedly I didn't have much time to try and so went for ndiswrapper pretty quickly. how did you get ndiswrapper to work? It worked for me for 2.6.23, but not for 2.6.24. I have a BCM4306 and I'm having some trouble getting the kernel driver to work, so I'd like to use ndiswrapper in the mean time. I guess there are some problems with ndiswrapper on kernel-2.4.26. I didn't get ndiswraper worked with kernel-2.4.26. Oh, I thought you meant ndis with 2.4.26. I mean kernel 2.6.24 !! did you tried kernel b43 module ?? Read below links, these may help you. I use b44 for my eth0 (always have). The problem with ndiswrapper was that b44 was grabbing wlan0 before ndis could. I couldn't ping over the wlan so I assumed b44 didn't work, but I was just playing around with routes, and I have managed to get both eth0 and wlan0 working with b44 together (no ndis). If you understood that sentence, congratulations! I understand little bit not fully. I didn't get how you managed without b43 module ? would be great if you could explain that. thanks, flukebox so no more ndis it seems! thanks, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au An engineer is someone who does list processing in FORTRAN. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [query] kernel-2.6.24 + ndiswrapper
On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 18:37 +0530, dell core2duo wrote: On Feb 18, 2008 5:59 PM, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 23:31 +0530, dell core2duo wrote: On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 7:28 PM, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2008-02-09 at 15:47 -0600, Dan Farrell wrote: On Sat, 9 Feb 2008 13:28:39 +0100 Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW, I am more interested to get things working. Quality would be my second priority. As I said before, I did not have any problem (unfortunately, I cannot access the hardware now and check the bandwidth issue). I have not yet gotten the new driver to work, though admittedly I didn't have much time to try and so went for ndiswrapper pretty quickly. how did you get ndiswrapper to work? It worked for me for 2.6.23, but not for 2.6.24. I have a BCM4306 and I'm having some trouble getting the kernel driver to work, so I'd like to use ndiswrapper in the mean time. I guess there are some problems with ndiswrapper on kernel-2.4.26. I didn't get ndiswraper worked with kernel-2.4.26. Oh, I thought you meant ndis with 2.4.26. I mean kernel 2.6.24 !! Whoops, that's what I meant I thought you meant :S did you tried kernel b43 module ?? Read below links, these may help you. I use b44 for my eth0 (always have). The problem with ndiswrapper was that b44 was grabbing wlan0 before ndis could. I couldn't ping over the wlan so I assumed b44 didn't work, but I was just playing around with routes, and I have managed to get both eth0 and wlan0 working with b44 together (no ndis). If you understood that sentence, congratulations! I understand little bit not fully. I didn't get how you managed without b43 module ? would be great if you could explain that. OK, I made a mistake there too. b44 I use for eth0, *b43* was grabbing wlan0 before ndiswrapper could. I tried playing with b43 and the cutter tool, but it didn't work as I mentioned before. I had to use the old bcm43xx module. There were some kernel options to change, and a different cutter tool. I followed the instructions here: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_BCM43xx cya, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Perl is designed to give you several ways to do anything, so consider picking the most readable one. -- Larry Wall in the perl man page -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [query] kernel-2.6.24 + ndiswrapper
On Sat, 2008-02-09 at 15:47 -0600, Dan Farrell wrote: On Sat, 9 Feb 2008 13:28:39 +0100 Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW, I am more interested to get things working. Quality would be my second priority. As I said before, I did not have any problem (unfortunately, I cannot access the hardware now and check the bandwidth issue). I have not yet gotten the new driver to work, though admittedly I didn't have much time to try and so went for ndiswrapper pretty quickly. how did you get ndiswrapper to work? It worked for me for 2.6.23, but not for 2.6.24. I have a BCM4306 and I'm having some trouble getting the kernel driver to work, so I'd like to use ndiswrapper in the mean time. When I load ndiswrapper (yes I've rebuilt it :) I get no wlan0 like I used to. thanks, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Wash: Oh my god, it's grotesque! Oh, and there's something in a jar. --Episode #12, The Message -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [query] kernel-2.6.24 + ndiswrapper
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 7:28 PM, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2008-02-09 at 15:47 -0600, Dan Farrell wrote: On Sat, 9 Feb 2008 13:28:39 +0100 Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW, I am more interested to get things working. Quality would be my second priority. As I said before, I did not have any problem (unfortunately, I cannot access the hardware now and check the bandwidth issue). I have not yet gotten the new driver to work, though admittedly I didn't have much time to try and so went for ndiswrapper pretty quickly. how did you get ndiswrapper to work? It worked for me for 2.6.23, but not for 2.6.24. I have a BCM4306 and I'm having some trouble getting the kernel driver to work, so I'd like to use ndiswrapper in the mean time. I guess there are some problems with ndiswrapper on kernel-2.4.26. I didn't get ndiswraper worked with kernel-2.4.26. did you tried kernel b43 module ?? Read below links, these may help you. http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_BCM43xx http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43?action=showredirect=en%2Fusers%2FDrivers%2Fbcm43xx regards, flukebox When I load ndiswrapper (yes I've rebuilt it :) I get no wlan0 like I used to. thanks, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Wash: Oh my god, it's grotesque! Oh, and there's something in a jar. --Episode #12, The Message -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [query] kernel-2.6.24 + ndiswrapper
Hi all, First of all thank you all. Finally i got my wireless card working with b43 drivers. But throughput is really low :-(. Below is dmesg output for b43 driver. snip flukebox flukebox # dmesg|grep b43 [ 27.087297] kobject b43: registering. parent: NULL, set: module [ 27.087328] kobject holders: registering. parent: b43, set: NULL [ 27.087404] fill_kobj_path: path = '/module/b43' [ 27.087501] kobject notes: registering. parent: b43, set: NULL [ 27.088021] bus ssb: add driver b43 [ 27.088030] kobject b43: registering. parent: NULL, set: drivers [ 27.088060] fill_kobj_path: path = '/bus/ssb/drivers/b43' [ 27.088075] ssb: Matched Device ssb0:0 with Driver b43 [ 27.088077] ssb: Probing driver b43 with device ssb0:0 [ 27.088201] b43-phy0: Broadcom 4311 WLAN found [ 27.124445] b43-phy0 debug: Found PHY: Analog 4, Type 2, Revision 8 [ 27.124465] b43-phy0 debug: Found Radio: Manuf 0x17F, Version 0x2050, Revision 2 [ 27.163484] bound device 'ssb0:0' to driver 'b43' [ 27.163487] ssb: Bound Device ssb0:0 to Driver b43 [ 27.163505] kobject drivers: registering. parent: b43, set: NULL [ 74.710234] input: b43-phy0 as /class/input/input11 [ 74.936281] b43-phy0 debug: Loading firmware version 351.126 (2006-07-29 05:54:02) [ 76.197406] b43-phy0 debug: Chip initialized [ 76.199682] b43-phy0 debug: 32-bit DMA initialized [ 76.213855] DEV: registering device: ID = 'b43-phy0:tx' [ 76.213863] kobject b43-phy0:tx: registering. parent: leds, set: devices [ 76.213883] PM: Adding info for No Bus:b43-phy0:tx [ 76.213906] fill_kobj_path: path = '/class/leds/b43-phy0:tx' [ 76.213927] Registered led device: b43-phy0:tx [ 76.213939] DEV: registering device: ID = 'b43-phy0:rx' [ 76.213947] kobject b43-phy0:rx: registering. parent: leds, set: devices [ 76.213966] PM: Adding info for No Bus:b43-phy0:rx [ 76.213989] fill_kobj_path: path = '/class/leds/b43-phy0:rx' [ 76.214007] Registered led device: b43-phy0:rx [ 76.214019] DEV: registering device: ID = 'b43-phy0:radio' [ 76.214027] kobject b43-phy0:radio: registering. parent: leds, set: devices [ 76.214045] PM: Adding info for No Bus:b43-phy0:radio [ 76.214068] fill_kobj_path: path = '/class/leds/b43-phy0:radio' [ 76.214086] Registered led device: b43-phy0:radio [ 76.214183] b43-phy0 debug: Wireless interface started [ 76.253791] b43-phy0 debug: Adding Interface type 2 /snip Actually this kernel log lines really help me out. snip Feb 14 02:29:45 [kernel] [ 28.088239] ssb: Matched Device ssb0:0 with Driver b43 Feb 14 02:29:45 [kernel] [ 28.088367] b43-phy0: Broadcom 4311 WLAN found Feb 14 02:29:45 [kernel] [ 28.122350] b43-phy0 debug: Found PHY: Analog 4, Type 2, Revision 8 Feb 14 02:29:45 [kernel] [ 28.122371] b43-phy0 debug: Found Radio: Manuf 0x17F, Version 0x2050, Revision 2 Feb 14 02:29:45 [kernel] [ 28.161505] bound device 'ssb0:0' to driver 'b43' Feb 14 02:29:45 [kernel] [ 28.161508] ssb: Bound Device ssb0:0 to Driver b43 Feb 14 02:29:45 [kernel] [ 28.161534] kobject drivers: registering. parent: b43, set: NULL Feb 14 02:29:45 [kernel] [ 98.817654] input: b43-phy0 as /class/input/input11 Feb 14 02:29:45 [kernel] [ 99.063914] b43-phy0 ERROR: YOUR FIRMWARE IS TOO NEW. Please downgrade your firmware. Feb 14 02:29:45 [kernel] [ 99.063917] b43-phy0 ERROR: Use this firmware tarball: http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0.tar.bz2 Feb 14 02:29:45 [kernel] [ 99.063920] b43-phy0 ERROR: Use this b43-fwcutter tarball: http://bu3sch.de/b43/fwcutter/b43-fwcutter-009.tar.bz2 Feb 14 02:29:45 [kernel] [ 99.063923] b43-phy0 ERROR: Read, understand and _do_ what this message says, please. Feb 14 02:29:45 [kernel] [ 99.081093] input: b43-phy0 as /class/input/input12 Feb 14 02:29:45 [kernel] [ 99.218499] b43-phy0 ERROR: Microcode not responding Feb 14 02:29:45 [kernel] [ 99.218503] b43-phy0 ERROR: You must go to http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefirmware and download the correct firmware (version 4). Feb 14 02:29:45 [kernel] [ 99.339472] input: b43-phy0 as /class/input/input13 Feb 14 02:29:45 [kernel] [ 99.475159] b43-phy0 ERROR: YOUR FIRMWARE IS TOO NEW. Please downgrade your firmware. Feb 14 02:29:45 [kernel] [ 99.475163] b43-phy0 ERROR: Use this firmware tarball: http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0.tar.bz2 Feb 14 02:29:45 [kernel] [ 99.475166] b43-phy0 ERROR: Use this b43-fwcutter tarball: http://bu3sch.de/b43/fwcutter/b43-fwcutter-009.tar.bz2 Feb 14 02:29:45 [kernel] [ 99.475169] b43-phy0 ERROR: Read, understand and _do_ what this message says, please. Feb 14 02:29:45 [kernel] [ 100.073085] input: b43-phy0 as /class/input/input14 Feb 14 02:29:45 [kernel] [ 100.211085] b43-phy0 ERROR: Microcode not responding Feb 14 02:29:45 [kernel] [ 100.211088] b43-phy0 ERROR: You must go to http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefirmware and download the correct firmware (version 4). /snip There after i did
Re: [gentoo-user] [query] kernel-2.6.24 + ndiswrapper
On Wednesday 13 February 2008, dell core2duo wrote: Hi all, First of all thank you all. Finally i got my wireless card working with b43 drivers. But throughput is really low :-(. [cut] flukebox flukebox # iwconfig lono wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. wmaster0_rename no wireless extensions. wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:iitk Mode:Managed Frequency:2.442 GHz Access Point: 00:11:95:D8:E3:33 Bit Rate=1 Mb/s Tx-Power=27 dBm Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2346 B Encryption key:off Link Quality=86/100 Signal level=-41 dBm Noise level=-69 dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 Uhm, the solution might be as simple as doing iwconfig wlan0 rate 54M fixed. However, I just noticed that the linuxwireless page about b43 has changed since yesterday; there are new instructions regarding the versions of firmware and fwcutter tool to use (011), and specific info regarding kernel 2.6.24. Check it out: http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43 Tomorrow I too am going to try the new instructions, and read some docs to at least try understanding what's going on with the new driver architecture (the *80211 stuff). -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [query] kernel-2.6.24 + ndiswrapper
On Wednesday 13 February 2008, dell core2duo wrote: Output for iwlist wlan0 scan is as below. flukebox flukebox # iwlist wlan0 scan wlan0 Scan completed : Cell 01 - Address: 00:11:95:D8:E3:33 ESSID:iitk Channel:7 Cell 02 - Address: 00:0F:B5:96:C6:70 ESSID:iitk Channel:10 Cell 03 - Address: 00:11:95:D8:E3:46 ESSID:iitk Channel:12 Cell 04 - Address: 00:0F:B5:96:C5:2B ESSID:iitk Channel:11 It seems you are using different APs with the same SSID. AFAIK, with 802.11b/g, to avoid confusing the wifi cards, neighboring AP channels should not overlap, which means they should be at least 5 channels apart (eg, 1,6,11 or 1,7,13, etc). APs transmitting on overlapping channels may cause interferences and confuse the wifi card, which might not be able to sense clearly when it is moving between APs, resulting in difficulties in deciding when to roam from one AP to another. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [query] kernel-2.6.24 + ndiswrapper
On Feb 14, 2008 3:48 AM, Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 13 February 2008, dell core2duo wrote: Hi all, First of all thank you all. Finally i got my wireless card working with b43 drivers. But throughput is really low :-(. [cut] flukebox flukebox # iwconfig lono wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. wmaster0_rename no wireless extensions. wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:iitk Mode:Managed Frequency:2.442 GHz Access Point: 00:11:95:D8:E3:33 Bit Rate=1 Mb/s Tx-Power=27 dBm Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2346 B Encryption key:off Link Quality=86/100 Signal level=-41 dBm Noise level=-69 dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 Uhm, the solution might be as simple as doing iwconfig wlan0 rate 54Mfixed. This command set bit rate to 54Mb but card suddenly stopped working :-(. So, I revert back to previous mode. Now i can see variable rates. Network is working fine. So, i guess bit rate doesn't make much difference(does it ??). However, I just noticed that the linuxwireless page about b43 has changed since yesterday; there are new instructions regarding the versions of firmware and fwcutter tool to use (011), and specific info regarding kernel 2.6.24. Check it out: http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43 I just checked, exactly first option suites my conditions and working fine. Tomorrow I too am going to try the new instructions, and read some docs to at least try understanding what's going on with the new driver architecture (the *80211 stuff). Good luck for you ! -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list Thanks, Flukebox
Re: [gentoo-user] [query] kernel-2.6.24 + ndiswrapper
On Tuesday 12 February 2008, dell core2duo wrote: but I am still getting WEXT errors. Starting wpa_supplicant on wlan0 ... ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Operation not supported WEXT auth param 4 value 0x0 - ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Operation not supported [ ok ] th param 5 value 0x1 - * Starting wpa_cli on wlan0 ... [ ok ] * Backgrounding ... WEXT seems to suggest wireless extensions (but I might be wrong of course). I have the following options enabled in my kernel (some might be redundant): CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT=y CONFIG_CFG80211=y CONFIG_NL80211=y CONFIG_MAC80211=y CONFIG_MAC80211_RCSIMPLE=y CONFIG_MAC80211_DEBUG=y CONFIG_MAC80211_VERBOSE_DEBUG=y CONFIG_IEEE80211=y CONFIG_IEEE80211_DEBUG=y CONFIG_IEEE80211_CRYPT_WEP=y CONFIG_IEEE80211_CRYPT_CCMP=y CONFIG_IEEE80211_CRYPT_TKIP=y CONFIG_IEEE80211_SOFTMAC=y CONFIG_IEEE80211_SOFTMAC_DEBUG=y CONFIG_WLAN_80211=y CONFIG_B43=y CONFIG_B43_PCI_AUTOSELECT=y CONFIG_B43_PCICORE_AUTOSELECT=y CONFIG_B43_DEBUG=y CONFIG_B43_DMA=y CONFIG_B43_PIO=y CONFIG_B43_DMA_AND_PIO_MODE=y CONFIG_B43LEGACY=y CONFIG_B43LEGACY_PCI_AUTOSELECT=y CONFIG_B43LEGACY_PCICORE_AUTOSELECT=y CONFIG_B43LEGACY_DEBUG=y CONFIG_B43LEGACY_DMA=y CONFIG_B43LEGACY_PIO=y CONFIG_B43LEGACY_DMA_AND_PIO_MODE=y I'm pretty sure some of them are redundant, but I have not had the time yet to read about the wireless extensions/*80211 changes and their implications. However, my card is working correctly with the above config. Is the firmware in place (the correct one for your driver)? Post the relevant sections from /var/log/messages where the wireless card is recognized and initialized. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [query] kernel-2.6.24 + ndiswrapper
Hi, Some updates. with the help of following links, http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_BCM43xx http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=647273highlight=b43 http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=649038 http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43?action=showredirect=en%2Fusers%2FDrivers%2Fbcm43xx I have successfully built and load b43 driver. Now I can see the wlan0 interface. - flukebox home # lsmod |grep b43 b43 130276 0 input_polldev 5784 1 b43 ouput of iwconfig is below. flukebox home # iwconfig wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:iitk Mode:Managed Frequency:2.442 GHz Access Point: 00:11:95:D8:E3:33 Tx-Power=off Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2346 B Encryption key: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 -- But still I am able to transmit any message. There is some error while transmission. flukebox home # dmesg|grep ERROR [ 2420.327210] b43-phy0 ERROR: PHY transmission error [ 2420.327622] b43-phy0 ERROR: PHY transmission error [ 2420.327686] b43-phy0 ERROR: PHY transmission error [ 2420.527136] b43-phy0 ERROR: PHY transmission error [ 2420.527201] b43-phy0 ERROR: PHY transmission error [ 2420.721574] b43-phy0 ERROR: PHY transmission error [ 2420.721649] b43-phy0 ERROR: PHY transmission error [ 2425.936058] b43-phy0 ERROR: PHY transmission error [ 2425.936137] b43-phy0 ERROR: PHY transmission error [ 2426.001384] b43-phy0 ERROR: PHY transmission error [ 2429.932210] b43-phy0 ERROR: PHY transmission error [ 2433.852553] b43-phy0 ERROR: PHY transmission error [ 2433.910519] b43-phy0 ERROR: PHY transmission error [ 2437.927955] b43-phy0 ERROR: PHY transmission error [ 2441.883687] b43-phy0 ERROR: PHY transmission error [ 2445.890988] b43-phy0 ERROR: PHY transmission error - but I am still getting WEXT errors. - * Starting wpa_supplicant on wlan0 ... ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Operation not supported WEXT auth param 4 value 0x0 - ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Operation not supported [ ok ] th param 5 value 0x1 - * Starting wpa_cli on wlan0 ... [ ok ] * Backgrounding ... Please help. Thanks , flukebox On Feb 12, 2008 10:38 PM, dell core2duo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I complied the kernel buitin broadcom drivers. So now, I have a interface named wlan0_rename. But things are still not working for me. flukebox flukebox # iwconfig lono wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. sit0 no wireless extensions. ip6tnl0 no wireless extensions. eth1 no wireless extensions. wlan0_rename IEEE 802.11g ESSID: Mode:Managed Channel:0 Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=0 dBm Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2346 B Encryption key: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 flukebox flukebox # /etc/init.d/net.wlan0_rename start * Starting wlan0_rename * /etc/conf.d/wireless is deprecated * Please put all settings in /etc/conf.d/net * /etc/conf.d/wireless is deprecated * Please put all settings in /etc/conf.d/net * Starting wpa_supplicant on wlan0_rename ... ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Operation not supported WEXT auth param 4 value 0x0 - ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Operation not supported [ ok ]th param 5 value 0x1 - * Starting wpa_cli on wlan0_rename ... [ ok ] * Backgrounding ... I guess param 4 value 0x0 - ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Operation not supported this has something to do with wpa_suplicant. can somebody help me out here ?? Also, is there any way to change my interface name wlan0_rename to wlan0 or eth1 ?? TIA, flukebox On Feb 10, 2008 3:17 AM, Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 9 Feb 2008 13:28:39 +0100 Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW, I am more interested to get things working. Quality would be my second priority. As I said before, I did not have any
Re: [gentoo-user] [query] kernel-2.6.24 + ndiswrapper
Hi, I complied the kernel buitin broadcom drivers. So now, I have a interface named wlan0_rename. But things are still not working for me. flukebox flukebox # iwconfig lono wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. sit0 no wireless extensions. ip6tnl0 no wireless extensions. eth1 no wireless extensions. wlan0_rename IEEE 802.11g ESSID: Mode:Managed Channel:0 Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=0 dBm Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2346 B Encryption key: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 flukebox flukebox # /etc/init.d/net.wlan0_rename start * Starting wlan0_rename * /etc/conf.d/wireless is deprecated * Please put all settings in /etc/conf.d/net * /etc/conf.d/wireless is deprecated * Please put all settings in /etc/conf.d/net * Starting wpa_supplicant on wlan0_rename ... ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Operation not supported WEXT auth param 4 value 0x0 - ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Operation not supported [ ok ]th param 5 value 0x1 - * Starting wpa_cli on wlan0_rename ... [ ok ] * Backgrounding ... I guess param 4 value 0x0 - ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Operation not supported this has something to do with wpa_suplicant. can somebody help me out here ?? Also, is there any way to change my interface name wlan0_rename to wlan0 or eth1 ?? TIA, flukebox On Feb 10, 2008 3:17 AM, Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 9 Feb 2008 13:28:39 +0100 Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW, I am more interested to get things working. Quality would be my second priority. As I said before, I did not have any problem (unfortunately, I cannot access the hardware now and check the bandwidth issue). I have not yet gotten the new driver to work, though admittedly I didn't have much time to try and so went for ndiswrapper pretty quickly. has anyone had luck with this driver recently? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [query] kernel-2.6.24 + ndiswrapper
On Saturday 9 February 2008, dell core2duo wrote: IIRC, the drivers for your card are now included in the kernel (bcm43xx). Does those driver provide the full features as ndiswrappers ?? Don't know what you mean exactly by full features. I have used them in infrastructure mode with no problems (wpa2). However, here's the official page: http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43 according to http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43/devices your card (14E4:4311) is supported. You need the firmware for the card, and the appropriate *-cutter tool to extract the firmware from the driver (it's in portage). Detailed info and step-by-step instructions are provided in the aforementioned page. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [query] kernel-2.6.24 + ndiswrapper
On Feb 9, 2008 5:24 PM, Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 9 February 2008, dell core2duo wrote: Hi all, I was using kernel 2.6.23 till now and everything was working pretty well. My wireless card is ---0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI (rev 01). It was working fine with kernel 2.6.23 with ndiswrapper. Yesterday i upgraded to kernel 2.4.26. And my wireless card stopped working. It says that eth1 does not exist. IIRC, the drivers for your card are now included in the kernel (bcm43xx). Does those driver provide the full features as ndiswrappers ?? thanks, flukebox -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [query] kernel-2.6.24 + ndiswrapper
On Saturday 9 February 2008, dell core2duo wrote: Hi all, I was using kernel 2.6.23 till now and everything was working pretty well. My wireless card is ---0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI (rev 01). It was working fine with kernel 2.6.23 with ndiswrapper. Yesterday i upgraded to kernel 2.4.26. And my wireless card stopped working. It says that eth1 does not exist. IIRC, the drivers for your card are now included in the kernel (bcm43xx). -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [query] kernel-2.6.24 + ndiswrapper
Yes, I have already rebuild all my drivers through revdep-rebuild. More over i am not able to find any eth1/wlan0 interface. - flukebox flukebox # ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:19:B9:80:97:66 inet addr:172.24.0.234 Bcast:172.24.7.255 Mask:255.255.248.0 inet6 addr: fe80::219:b9ff:fe80:9766/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:403919 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:66919 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:156546805 (149.2 Mb) TX bytes:6978869 (6.6 Mb) Interrupt:16 loLink encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:759 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:759 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:833199 (813.6 Kb) TX bytes:833199 (813.6 Kb) flukebox flukebox # iwconfig lono wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. sit0 no wireless extensions. ip6tnl0 no wireless extensions. flukebox flukebox # thanks, flukebox On Feb 9, 2008 5:02 PM, Ian Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dell core2duo wrote: Hi all, I was using kernel 2.6.23 till now and everything was working pretty well. My wireless card is ---0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI (rev 01). It was working fine with kernel 2.6.23 with ndiswrapper. Yesterday i upgraded to kernel 2.4.26. And my wireless card stopped working. It says that eth1 does not exist. Some important out are below --- flukebox # ndiswrapper -l bcmwl5 : driver installed device (14E4:4311) present flukebox # /etc/init.d/net.eth1 start * Starting eth1 * /etc/conf.d/wireless is deprecated * Please put all settings in /etc/conf.d/net * /etc/conf.d/wireless is deprecated * Please put all settings in /etc/conf.d/net * Configuration not set for eth1 - assuming DHCP * Bringing up eth1 * dhcp * network interface eth1 does not exist * Please verify hardware or kernel module (driver) [ !! ] flukebox # I didn't have any kernel built-in module for bcmxx . Can somebody help me here. Any help would be appreciated. TIA, flukebox Have u rebuilt the ndiswprapper kernel module for the new kernel? try reinstalling ndiswrapper -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [query] kernel-2.6.24 + ndiswrapper
dell core2duo wrote: Hi all, I was using kernel 2.6.23 till now and everything was working pretty well. My wireless card is ---0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI (rev 01). It was working fine with kernel 2.6.23 with ndiswrapper. Yesterday i upgraded to kernel 2.4.26. And my wireless card stopped working. It says that eth1 does not exist. Some important out are below --- flukebox # ndiswrapper -l bcmwl5 : driver installed device (14E4:4311) present flukebox # /etc/init.d/net.eth1 start * Starting eth1 * /etc/conf.d/wireless is deprecated * Please put all settings in /etc/conf.d/net * /etc/conf.d/wireless is deprecated * Please put all settings in /etc/conf.d/net * Configuration not set for eth1 - assuming DHCP * Bringing up eth1 * dhcp * network interface eth1 does not exist * Please verify hardware or kernel module (driver) [ !! ] flukebox # I didn't have any kernel built-in module for bcmxx . Can somebody help me here. Any help would be appreciated. TIA, flukebox Have u rebuilt the ndiswprapper kernel module for the new kernel? try reinstalling ndiswrapper -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [query] kernel-2.6.24 + ndiswrapper
Hi check this link, http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Dell_Inspiron_1520#Wireless_Network It says that snip You should install the Windows driver from Dell if you would like to take advantage of the full bandwith of your WLAN card (meaning 54 MBit/s). !!FIXME!! If you would like to use the kernel driver, probably you can but only with limited (11 MBit/s) bandwith. /snip BTW, I am more interested to get things working. Quality would be my second priority. Thanks, flukebox On Feb 9, 2008 5:42 PM, Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 9 February 2008, dell core2duo wrote: IIRC, the drivers for your card are now included in the kernel (bcm43xx). Does those driver provide the full features as ndiswrappers ?? Don't know what you mean exactly by full features. I have used them in infrastructure mode with no problems (wpa2). However, here's the official page: http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43 according to http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43/devices your card (14E4:4311) is supported. You need the firmware for the card, and the appropriate *-cutter tool to extract the firmware from the driver (it's in portage). Detailed info and step-by-step instructions are provided in the aforementioned page. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [query] kernel-2.6.24 + ndiswrapper
On Saturday 9 February 2008, dell core2duo wrote: Hi check this link, http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Dell_Inspiron_1520#Wireless_Network It says that snip You should install the Windows driver from Dell if you would like to take advantage of the full bandwith of your WLAN card (meaning 54 MBit/s). !!FIXME!! If you would like to use the kernel driver, probably you can but only with limited (11 MBit/s) bandwith. /snip Uhm, the b43 page does not mention this. I guess you just have to try and see. Personally, I always prefer in-kernel drivers rather than external when possible, especially in this case where the external driver is actually a kludge around windows drivers. BTW, I am more interested to get things working. Quality would be my second priority. As I said before, I did not have any problem (unfortunately, I cannot access the hardware now and check the bandwidth issue). -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [query] kernel-2.6.24 + ndiswrapper
On Sat, 9 Feb 2008 13:28:39 +0100 Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW, I am more interested to get things working. Quality would be my second priority. As I said before, I did not have any problem (unfortunately, I cannot access the hardware now and check the bandwidth issue). I have not yet gotten the new driver to work, though admittedly I didn't have much time to try and so went for ndiswrapper pretty quickly. has anyone had luck with this driver recently? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
