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
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