Larry Finger wrote: > > You are making a number of mistakes. The biggest one is to try to use bcm43xx > or b43 with > ndiswrapper. THEY ARE MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE. If you want to use ndiswrapper, > then we cannot help you.
Thanks, got it ! I am focussing on getting b43 support now. ndiswrapper is not wrapping anything now. > > A second minor mistake is to try to use bcm43xx when b43 is available. The > actual hardware handling > is not that different; however, the MAC implementation in b43 (mac80211) is > vastly superior to that > in bcm43xx (SoftMAC). Thanks for pointing out. Only b43 from now ! > > Please rebuild your 2.6.24-rc5 with bcm43xx disabled, but with ssb, mac80211 > and b43 enabled. Please > enable ssb and b43 debugging. Did this and compiled 2.6.24-rc5 kernel cleanly. Rebooted. After the new kernel is built, installed and booted, check the output > of the following commands: > > iwconfig > ifconfig [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ iwconfig lo no wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. > > If ifconfig does not show eth1 or wlan1 (whatever your device is named) to be > UP, then issue an > 'ifup eth1' command, then [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/shouryas# ifup eth1 Ignoring unknown interface eth1=eth1. (Same for wlan0, wlan1) > > dmesg | grep ssb > dmesg | grep b43 > > Fix whatever problems that you can, then post the output of the last two. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/shouryas# dmesg | grep "ssb\|b43" [ 43.324090] ssb: Sonics Silicon Backplane found on PCI device 0000:0c:00.0 [ 53.899968] b43: disagrees about version of symbol ssb_device_is_enabled [ 53.899974] b43: Unknown symbol ssb_device_is_enabled [ 53.900126] b43: disagrees about version of symbol ssb_pcicore_dev_irqvecs_enable [ 53.900129] b43: Unknown symbol ssb_pcicore_dev_irqvecs_enable [ 53.900214] b43: disagrees about version of symbol ssb_bus_may_powerdown [ 53.900216] b43: Unknown symbol ssb_bus_may_powerdown [ 53.900500] b43: disagrees about version of symbol ssb_bus_unregister [ 53.900502] b43: Unknown symbol ssb_bus_unregister [ 53.900661] b43: disagrees about version of symbol ssb_set_devtypedata [ 53.900663] b43: Unknown symbol ssb_set_devtypedata [ 53.900850] b43: disagrees about version of symbol ssb_device_disable [ 53.900852] b43: Unknown symbol ssb_device_disable [ 53.901030] b43: disagrees about version of symbol ssb_dma_set_mask [ 53.901032] b43: Unknown symbol ssb_dma_set_mask [ 53.901320] b43: disagrees about version of symbol ssb_device_enable [ 53.901322] b43: Unknown symbol ssb_device_enable [ 53.901437] b43: disagrees about version of symbol ssb_driver_unregister [ 53.901439] b43: Unknown symbol ssb_driver_unregister [ 53.901577] b43: disagrees about version of symbol __ssb_driver_register [ 53.901579] b43: Unknown symbol __ssb_driver_register [ 53.901809] b43: Unknown symbol ssb_bus_pcmciabus_register [ 53.901891] b43: disagrees about version of symbol ssb_bus_powerup [ 53.901893] b43: Unknown symbol ssb_bus_powerup [ 53.902404] b43: disagrees about version of symbol ssb_dma_translation [ 53.902406] b43: Unknown symbol ssb_dma_translation To confirm, I am building the 2.6.24-rc5 kernel and booting into the same. > > Larry > Some pointers appreciated. Thanks in advance, Shourya _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
