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diogo.urb

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Registered: 2007-12-27

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Ndiswrapper Trouble

Hi, I have a laptop Dell vostro 1000... and my wireless works with ndiswrapper, it worked since the moment I installed arch linux... but after the 1° upgrade, it stopped working...

I found out why but I can't solve it!

Here's why... when I had the kernel 2.6.22-ARCH and ndiswrapper 1.47... with ndiswrapper -l I got:

bcmwl5 : driver installed
        device (14E4:4312) present (alternate driver: bcm43xx)

But now with kernel 2.6.24-ARCH and ndiswrapper 1.52, I get:

bcmwl5 : driver installed
        device (14E4:4312) present (alternate driver: ssb)

Now the case is... I have also an ethernet connection which uses the b44 module... and this module requires the ssb module.

Summing up: If I want my wireless card to work with ndiswrapper the module ssb can't be loaded so I need to blacklist it on /etc/rc.conf, but if I do so... the module b44 can't be loaded and I lose my ethernet connection.

Does anyone knows where can I find the config file to change the alternative driver back to bcm43xx??? Or does anyone knows how can I force my device to use the ndiswrapper driver even if the alternative driver (in this case ssb) is loaded?

Last edited by diogo.urb (2008-04-05 01:22:39)

pyther

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Registered: 2008-01-21

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Re: Ndiswrapper Trouble

If I remember correctly I had blacklist the ssb module. Although b44 worked for me. This was over 4 months ago so I might had to do something else. Check out the wiki (Dell Vostro 1000) page on setting up b43 for wireless (you might need kernel 2.6.25 from testing)

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