I am not precisely sure about the reason but I am experiencing a similar
problem. I am using Intrepid on a Dell Inspiron 1721 with Broadcom 4328
wireless card. I have been using ndiswrapper for a long time without any
problems and it suddenly stopped working yesterday. It seems that
ndiswrapper is installed properly, the module is loaded but it is not
used for the wireless card in any way. I do not see the wireless adapter
with ifconfig, despite the fact b43 is blacklisted (it still loads?).
Below are some output you might find useful.
na...@serre:~$ ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1c:23:84:3c:d1
inet6 addr: fe80::21c:23ff:fe84:3cd1/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:492 (492.0 B)
Interrupt:21
lo Link 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:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:100 (100.0 B) TX bytes:100 (100.0 B)
na...@serre:~$ lsmod|grep -i -e b43 -e b44 -e ssb -e ndiswrapper
ndiswrapper 253696 0
b44 41872 0
mii 14592 1 b44
usbcore 175376 5 uvcvideo,ndiswrapper,ehci_hcd,ohci_hcd
ssb 46340 1 b44
na...@serre:~$ sudo emacs /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist &
[1] 6320
na...@serre:~$ cd /etc/modprobe.d/
na...@serre:/etc/modprobe.d$ ls
aliases blacklist blacklist-oss dkms isapnp
ndiswrapper
alsa-base blacklist~ blacklist-scanner fuse libpisock9
nvidia-kernel-nkc
arch blacklist-framebuffer blacklist-watchdog i2c libsane
options
arch-aliases blacklist-modem bluez ipw3945 lrm-video
toshiba_acpi.modprobe
na...@serre:/etc/modprobe.d$ cd
na...@serre:/etc/modprobe.d$ cd ~
na...@serre:~$ ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1c:23:84:3c:d1
inet addr:192.168.0.2 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::21c:23ff:fe84:3cd1/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:4140 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4044 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:3809582 (3.8 MB) TX bytes:829853 (829.8 KB)
Interrupt:21
lo Link 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:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:100 (100.0 B) TX bytes:100 (100.0 B)
na...@serre:~$ sudo lshw -c network
*-network
description: Network controller
product: BCM4328 802.11a/b/g/n
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: p...@0000:0b:00.0
version: 03
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=b43-pci-bridge latency=0 module=ssb
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: p...@0000:03:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 02
serial: 00:1c:23:84:3c:d1
size: 100MB/s
capacity: 100MB/s
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical mii 10bt 10bt-fd
100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=b44
driverversion=2.0 duplex=full ip=192.168.0.2 latency=64 link=yes module=ssb
multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=100MB/s
na...@serre:~$ lsmod|grep -i -e b43 -e b44 -e ssb -e ndiswrapper
ndiswrapper 253696 0
b44 41872 0
mii 14592 1 b44
usbcore 175376 5 uvcvideo,ndiswrapper,ehci_hcd,ohci_hcd
ssb 46340 1 b44
na...@serre:~$ tail /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
# replaced by asus-laptop (Ubuntu: #184721)
blacklist asus_acpi
# low-quality, just noise when being used for sound playback, causes
# hangs at desktop session start (Ubuntu: #246969)
blacklist snd_pcsp
blacklist b43
blacklist b44
I do not understand how it is possible to blacklist b44 and still have
it present. When I run "modprobe -r b44" my network stops working
altogether.
Do you have any ideas how to fix this?
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Intrepid: Regression Ndiswrapper is broken by b43 driver again
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/268625
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