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I need to get my wireless card working with ndiswrapper. I have the drivers, and ndiswrapper was installed when I installed arch. I think I have even installed the drivers. I just don't think it is set up properly. I have got this card working in ubuntu and debian, so I know it can work.
Can anyone point me to good intructions on ndiswrapper in arch?
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Never mind, I found a wiki page I missed before. I should really have a better look before posting.
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I found the page and followed the instructions, but when I go to network manager>connect to other wireless network, network manager crashes.
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I fixed the crashing problem, but still have to get it to see my network.
[duncan@myhost ~]$ ndiswrapper -l
bcmwl5 : driver installed
device (14E4:4311) present (alternate driver: bcm43xx)
[duncan@myhost ~]$ ndiswrapper -r bcm43xx
couldn't delete /etc/ndiswrapper/bcm43xx: No such file or directory
[duncan@myhost ~]$ rmmod bcm43xx
ERROR: Module bcm43xx does not exist in /proc/modules
[duncan@myhost ~]$
The problem is the alternate driver. I tried rmmod bcm43xx to get rid of it like the ndiswrapper instructions said, but I got an error.
Last edited by Raccoon1400 (2008-04-22 00:18:56)
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you should try b43 or b43legacy. i'm using b43 on my dell 1390 wireless
http://linuxwireless.sipsolutions.net/e … rivers/b43
Last edited by wonder (2008-04-22 10:01:48)
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The restricted drivers for the broadcom card don't seem to work, I have only got it working with ndiswrapper.
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Paste the output of
lsmod | grep b43
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[duncan@myhost ~]$ lsmod | grep b43
b43 123432 0
rfkill 7440 15 rfkill_input,b43
mac80211 132236 1 b43
input_polldev 4624 1 b43
ssb 36228 2 b43,b44
pcmcia 38688 2 b43,ssb
pcmcia_core 38692 2 b43,pcmcia
[duncan@myhost ~]$
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Was someone going to tell me what this code they asked me to post meant?
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In /etc/rc.conf you need to blacklist bcm43xx in your module list.
Example:
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
# HARDWARE
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# Scan hardware and load required modules at bootup
MOD_AUTOLOAD="yes"
# Module Blacklist - modules in this list will never be loaded by udev
MOD_BLACKLIST=(bcm43xx)
#
# Modules to load at boot-up (in this order)
# - prefix a module with a ! to blacklist it
#
MODULES=(forcedeth !bcm43xx snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm-oss snd-hwdep snd-page-alloc snd-pcm snd-timer snd snd-hda-intel soundcore vboxdrv)
# Scan for LVM volume groups at startup, required if you use LVM
USELVM="no"
Notice the ! before bcm43xx in the MODULES list and how I've put it in the MOD_BLACKLIST.
Blacklisting this will take away the confliction between your open source driver, and your ndiswrapper driver.
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MOD_BLACKLIST is deprecated
from rc.conf
# NOTE: Use of 'MOD_BLACKLIST' is deprecated. Please use ! in the MODULES array.
also take a look at: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=43904
Last edited by wonder (2008-04-25 21:07:46)
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MOD_AUTOLOAD="yes"
MOD_BLACKLIST=(bcm43xx) #deprecated
MODULES=(b44 mii !bcm43xx ndiswrapper snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm-oss snd-hwdep snd-page-alloc snd-pcm snd-timer snd snd-hda-intel acpi-cpufreq cpufreq_ondemand cpufreq_powersave soundcore vboxdrv)
but still get
[duncan@myhost ~]$ ndiswrapper -l
bcmwl5 : driver installed
device (14E4:4311) present (alternate driver: bcm43xx)
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If I blacklist b44, I can get wireless, but no wired, and I can't use the wireless host computer's internet connection. Would my wireless connection be wlan0 or eth1? How do I tell?
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just follow the link that i give you in last post. there is a issue with ssb + ndiswrapper.
try loading ndiswrapper before ssb
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I did look at the other post. It helped a bit, but I don't have ssb. The alternate driver it tells me I have is bcm43xx.
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you have ssb because b44 and b43 depends on it. use lsmod to see that
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Just put ndiswrapper at the start of your MODULES in /etc/rc.conf. That seemed to solve it for all in the post wonder mentioned. I used to use ndiswrapper for a Broadcom 4306 pcmcia card in my old thinkpad but now am using b43 with no problems.
Edit: Well I'll be darned. There is something screwy going on here. I just was reading a post on an ubuntu forum about ndiswrapper being better than b43 because it can use 802.1 g instead of 802.1 b, therefore more speed, than the b43 driver so I tried setting up ndiswrapper on my thinkpad but it shows the alternate driver bcm43xx with ndiswrapper -l. I blacklisted and ! out bcm43xx and b43 in /etc/rc.conf and lsmod doesn't show any bcm43xx or b43 being loaded but ndiswrapper definitely showing alternate driver bcm43xx anyway. There is a problem here and I don't know what it is but at least I can go back to b43. Sorry Raccoon1400.
Last edited by bgc1954 (2008-04-26 18:55:28)
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Okay, now both wireless and wired work, but I still can't get internet from wireless. I can connect to the windows XP desktop, but can't use it's internet connection.
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