[SLE] Wireless card not communicating using ndiswrapper !?

From: Jan Elders (jrme_at_xs4all.nl)
Date: 11/30/04

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Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 21:12:59 +0100

    Hello,

    I have a problem with my SMC 2835W card seemingly not transmitting any radio
    signal while using ndiswrapper.

    I have installed and activated ndiswrapper on SuSE 9.1 (2.6.5-7.111-default).
    When inserting my SMC 2835W card in the PCMCIA slot, the system/ndiswrapper
    recognize the card.

     /var/log/messages is telling me :
    kernel: PCI: Enabling device 0000:02:00.0 (0000 -> 0002)
    kernel: PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:02:00.0 to 64
    kernel: ndiswrapper: Buggy ndis driver trying to use unintilized spinlock.
    Trying to recover...ok.
    kernel: wlan0: ndiswrapper ethernet device 00:04:e2:cb:c9:88 using driver
    2835wicb.sys
    kernel: wlan0: no IPv6 routers present

    This look all-right to me, ndiswrapper sees the correct MAC of the card, but
    the card remains totally dark and ifstatus wlan0   tells me :
    wlan0 is up
    4: wlan0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 1000
        link/ether 00:04:e2:cb:c9:88 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
        inet 192.168.123.110/24 brd 192.168.123.255 scope global wlan0
        inet6 fe80::204:e2ff:fecb:c988/64 scope link
           valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
        wlan0     IP address: 192.168.123.110/24
    Configured routes for interface wlan0:
      default 192.168.123.1 - -
      169.254.0.0 - 255.255.0.0 wlan0
    Active routes for interface wlan0:
      192.168.123.0/24  proto kernel  scope link  src 192.168.123.110
      169.254.0.0/16  scope link
      default via 192.168.123.1
    1 of 2 configured routes for interface wlan0 up
    wlan0     IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:""  Nickname:"MEDION"
              Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.437GHz  Access Point: FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
              Bit Rate=2Mb/s   Tx-Power:32 dBm
              RTS thr=2347 B   Fragment thr=2346 B
              Encryption key:FABE-DEC5-12   Security mode:restricted
              Power Management:off
              Link Quality:100  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
              Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
              Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

    Apparently it does not see the Access Point, which is 100% certain functioning
    all-right. Also "Signal level:0" suggests to me that the card is not
    transmitting any radio signal.

    Using the same card on the same laptop before with Linuxant DriverLoader did
    work correctly, but I abandoned that solution for other reasons. Also under
    Windows it works allright.

    Could there be some command I have to give in the ndiswrapper context in order
    to activate the wireless transmission of the card ?

    Help is greatly appreciated.

    TIA and HAND 

    -- 
Jan Elders
the Netherlands
http://www.xs4all.nl/~jrme/
"Home of the Network Acronyms"
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