Re: still struggling with ndiswrapper

From: Jeff Vian (jvian10_at_charter.net)
Date: 10/28/05

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Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 08:17:27 -0500

    On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 16:00 -0400, James Pifer wrote:
    > I've tried getting my builtin wireless card in my laptop working before
    > and was close, but could never get it working. I would REALLY like to
    > use my laptop without being tied to my desk. Previously I could load the
    > drivers, using ndiswrapper, and get all the way up to loading it, but I
    > could never get an ipaddress. So I figured I would try again but this
    > time remove wep and see if can connect.
    >
    > lspci shows me this:
    >
    > 02:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g
    > Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03)
    >
    > When I try to modprobe ndiswrapper the machine locks up hard. After a
    > reboot I see this in /var/log/messages:
    >
    > Oct 27 15:09:45 kernel: ndiswrapper version 1.4rc4 loaded
    > (preempt=no,smp=yes)
    > Oct 27 15:09:45 kernel: ndiswrapper: driver bcmwl5 (Broadcom,10/20/2004,
    > 3.70.22.0) loaded
    > Oct 27 15:09:45 kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:02.0[A] -> GSI 18
    > (level, low) -> IRQ 193
    > Oct 27 15:09:45 kernel: ndiswrapper: using irq 193
    >
    > I also tried reinstalling ndiswrapper but still get the same thing. If
    > it's an IRQ problem, any suggestions on how to handle it?
    >
    > Any other suggestions?
    >

    It may be related to the 4k stack problem. I had that on my laptop and
    used the kernel with 16k stack from
    http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/wlan/full/downloads-fc4-i686.php
    to solve it.

    > Thanks,
    > James
    >
    > 

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