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zeus

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From: Korolev / Russia

Registered: 2006-09-19

Posts: 117

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new kernel and ndiswrapper

I have:

0b:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-PCI Card (rev 01)

Just a bcm4311 chip

$ ndiswrapper -v
utils version: 1.9
driver version:        1.37
vermagic:       2.6.20-ARCH SMP preempt mod_unload

$ ndiswrapper -l
bcmwl5 : driver installed
        device (14E4:4311) present (alternate driver: bcm43xx)

$ uname -a
Linux gefest 2.6.20-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Apr 7 02:52:09 MSD 2007 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU  ....

Wireless connection works well:

wlan0     IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:"PREVED"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.462 GHz  Access Point: 00:18:F8:7A:4E:3C
          Bit Rate=54 Mb/s   Tx-Power:32 dBm
          RTS thr:2347 B   Fragment thr:2346 B
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:98/100  Signal level:-33 dBm  Noise level:-96 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:15  Invalid misc:23   Missed beacon:0

BUT:

$ iwlist wlan0 scan
wlan0     Scan completed :
          Cell 01 - Address: 4E:3C:00:00:00:00
                    ESSID:""
                    Protocol: 802.11g
                    Mode:Unknown/bug
                    Frequency=inf GHz
                    Quality:4  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
                    Quality:4  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
                    Encryption key:on
                    Bit Rates:0 kb/s; 0 kb/s; 0 kb/s; 0 kb/s; 0 kb/s
                              0 kb/s; 0 kb/s; 0 kb/s; 0 kb/s; 0 kb/s
                              0 kb/s; 0 kb/s
                    Extra:
                    Extra:

OR no scan result at all

Seems like problem comes after 20.4 or 20.3 upgrade

wtf?

kupje

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From: DK

Registered: 2007-04-07

Posts: 7

Re: new kernel and ndiswrapper

Have you unloaded/blacklisted the bcm43xx module?

zeus

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From: Korolev / Russia

Registered: 2006-09-19

Posts: 117

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Re: new kernel and ndiswrapper

Have you unloaded/blacklisted the bcm43xx module?

of cource

zeus

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From: Korolev / Russia

Registered: 2006-09-19

Posts: 117

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Re: new kernel and ndiswrapper

HM! i just replaced bcm4311 card with intel ipw3945
same result. wifi working, but scanner won't work

zeus

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From: Korolev / Russia

Registered: 2006-09-19

Posts: 117

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Re: new kernel and ndiswrapper

networkmanager shows networks correctly =\

kupje

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From: DK

Registered: 2007-04-07

Posts: 7

Re: new kernel and ndiswrapper

Well, I never had a problem with my Broadcom card. Followed this howto and everything is working fine.

G_Syme

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Registered: 2007-01-04

Posts: 83

Re: new kernel and ndiswrapper

Yo!

I have the same chip and have become aware of this strange behavior, too. The symptoms only appear in iwlist, which is part of wireless_tools:

$ pacman -Qo $(which iwlist)
/usr/sbin/iwlist is owned by wireless_tools 29pre17-1

A few minutes ago I've downgraded to version 29pre10-1 (which was luckily still in my pacman cache):

pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/wireless_tools-29pre10-1.pkg.tar.gz

And now iwlist displays correct/useful values once again.

Maybe not the best solution but at least a working one. And now we know that the problem isn't connected with a new kernel or ndiswrapper itself.

Hope this can solve your problem (at least for now), too, zeus!

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