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Azrael

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Registered: 2008-04-11

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Networking with NDISwrapper not working :(

Just acquired a wireless network card. I managed to get it working with ndiswrapper, and my brother configured it from there. Then, he decided to `pacman -Sy`. Bad idea. It stops working, and to downgrade ndiswrapper I had to reinstall arch. Now I can't get networking working.

`iwconfig wlan0` says that it's got no ESSID and no Access Point. When I set the AP it doesn't do anything (ie. `iwconfig wlan0` will still say Not-Associated), and when I set the ESSID it hangs until I Ctrl+C, upon which point it places the following in /var/log/messages.log:

ndiswrapper (set_essid:59): setting essid failed (C0000001)

Any ideas? As it stands, I can't even ping the router. Not too sure about the card, but it says on it 'AMD Alchemy', and the NDIS drivers are called 'NetAm772'.

Azrael

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Registered: 2008-04-11

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Re: Networking with NDISwrapper not working :(

When I boot up, it says 'SIOCADDRT: No such process'. When I shut down, it says 'SIOCDELRT: No such process'. When I `route add default gw 192.168.1.1`, it gives the SIOCADDRT error. I also get the errors with /etc/rc.d/network.

Azrael

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Registered: 2008-04-11

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Re: Networking with NDISwrapper not working :(

I'm using version 1.47 of ndiswrapper, which came with Arch 2007.8.

Azrael

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Registered: 2008-04-11

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Re: Networking with NDISwrapper not working :(

Anybody? Anything? Nobody? Nothing?

Bah.

pitseleh

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Registered: 2008-03-14

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Re: Networking with NDISwrapper not working :(

Maybe try ndiswrapper -m and/or -ma and/or -mi?

What's the output of ndiswrapper -l?

Azrael

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Registered: 2008-04-11

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Re: Networking with NDISwrapper not working :(

Hmmm... I've never seen this message before, so I'm not sure when it started happening - presumably, the same time as my networking broke.

[root@peter-arch ~]#ndiswrapper -l
ndiswrapper : invalid driver!
netam772 : driver installed
        device (1022:2003) present
[root@peter-arch ~]#ndiswrapper -r netam772
[root@peter-arch ~]#ndiswrapper -l
ndiswrapper : invalid driver!
[root@peter-arch ~]# WHY, LINUX, WHY!?
-bash: !?: event not found
[root@peter-arch ~]# mount /mnt/ipod; cd !$
[root@peter-arch ipod]# cd Packages/asdfghjkl
[root@peter-arch asdfghjkl]# ndiswrapper -i NetAm772.inf
installing netam772 ...
[root@peter-arch asdfghjkl]# ndiswrapper -l
ndiswrapper : invalid driver!
netam772 : driver installed
        device (1022:2003) present
[root@peter-arch asdfghjkl]# ndiswrapper -m
module configuration already contains alias directive

[root@peter-arch asdfghjkl]# ndiswrapper -ma
module configuration information is stored in /etc/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper
[root@peter-arch asdfghjkl]# ndiswrapper -mi
module configuration information is stored in /etc/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper

Azrael

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Registered: 2008-04-11

Posts: 13

Re: Networking with NDISwrapper not working :(

Never mind about that error. `ndiswrapper -r ndiswrapper` solves it .

But I'm still getting the SIOCADDRT/SIOCDELRT errors.

pitseleh

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Registered: 2008-03-14

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Re: Networking with NDISwrapper not working :(

Output of iwconfig?

Azrael

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Registered: 2008-04-11

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Re: Networking with NDISwrapper not working :(

[root@peter-arch ~]# iwconfig wlan0
wlan0     IEEE 802.11b  ESSID:off/any
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.437GHz  Access Point: Not-Associated
          Bit Rate:11 Mb/s   Tx-Power:20 dBm
          RTS thr:-836105941 B   Fragment thr:-836105942 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 retried:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

[root@peter-arch ~]#