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NoHz

Member

Registered: 2007-07-22

Posts: 5

After kernel upgrade, ndiswrapper doesnt work anymore :(!

Hi, well i first get current duke iso and installed on my laptop... my laptop
has a fuck!nG broadcom mini-pci card for wireless installed, so the bcm43xx doesnt
work, i use ndiswrapper on the current duke kernel, and works!, but i upgrade the system
with a -syu and install a new kernel...

And now ndiswrapper doesnt work, it says that my card is working but it doesnt.. just
see the dmesg

[nohz@Myb0x ~]$ dmesg | grep ndiswrapper
ndiswrapper version 1.43 loaded (smp=yes)
usbcore: registered new interface driver ndiswrapper

It doesnt boot the card... and see the ndiswrapper info..

[nohz@Myb0x ~]$ ndiswrapper -l
bcmwl5 : driver installed
        device (14E4:4311) present (alternate driver: bcm43xx)

I have remove the bcmwl5 and install it again, i have remove ndiswrapper and
install it again but it doesnt work and i dont know why it works before .

lspci..

[nohz@Myb0x ~]$ lspci -nnv | grep Broad
03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-PCI Card [14e4:4311] (rev 01)

lsmod

[nohz@Myb0x ~]$ lsmod | grep ndis
ndiswrapper           182908  0 
usbcore               111240  6 usb_storage,ehci_hcd,usbhid,ohci_hcd,ndiswrapper

I think the problem of ndiswrapper is not only booting the card and install it with
the wlan0 interface, i think is the interface also, but i have try to configure it by myself
and it doesnt work..

[nohz@Myb0x ~]$ iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

I remember that in the old kernel i was using, ndiswrapper install a wlan0 for my card
and well, it was working..

I have bcm43xx mod in blacklist so it didnt boot it, (bcm43xx doesnt work with my card)

And yes, my english sucks...

Ideas?, thank you, archlinux <3

[nohz@Myb0x ~]$ uname -a
Linux Myb0x 2.6.21-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Jul 7 09:57:11 UTC 2007 i686 AMD Turion(tm) 64 Mobile Technology MK-36 AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux

Ah!, other question, whats the diference between the mkinit.conf and rc.conf??, i mean
booting modules..

stonecrest

Member

From: Boulder

Registered: 2005-01-22

Posts: 1,190

Re: After kernel upgrade, ndiswrapper doesnt work anymore :(!

It sounds like your pacman mirror isn't up to date. The latest kernel is 2.6.22 and the latest ndiswrapper is 1.47.

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NoHz

Member

Registered: 2007-07-22

Posts: 5

Re: After kernel upgrade, ndiswrapper doesnt work anymore :(!

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I dont know why, but i have to rmmod ndiswrapper and modprobe it again... :S

Thanks