Re: Ubuntu on HP-Compaq NX6110
From: Marek Williams (abc_at_example.com)
Date: 06/19/05
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Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 18:46:15 -0700
On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 15:18:21 +0200, Wolfgang Lonien <wjlonien@gmx.net>
dijo:
>forgot: I did it with plain Debian 3.1 "Sarge" instead of Ubuntu - but
>that shouldn't make a big difference at the moment.
Wolfgang,
I have an R3240 with Broadcom 4306 and it is still not
working. I just got home from a Clinic put on once a month all
Saturday afternoon by the local Linux Uusers Group. A super-guru was
helping me, but after three hours we were not successful. Prior to the
meeting I had bookmarked a lot of sites with instructions and other
sites with drivers and stuff. The Clinic is held at a local school
computer lab, so we have lots of bandwidth as well as wireless.
The computer is running Ubuntu 64-bit. I am a total n00b, but
already I know I love Ubuntu. Video is gorgeous at 1680 x 1050,
and was autoconfigured during installation. It also found my home
ethernet and this Windows computer. Previously I had tried Knoppix
live, Suse 9.3 from retail package, Fedora Core 3 from DVD in an
"unleashed" book, and Mandriva 2005 LE downloaded from MandrivaClub.
None configured the video at anything but VESA 1024 x 768. Suse was
the only one that found the ethernet and cable modem, but even it
couldn't see the Windows network. Ubunto ROCKS. However, it did not
configure the wireless, although neither did any of the others.
In fact, a few days ago I clicked on a link from ubuntulinux.org to
cafepress.com and bought an Ubuntu t-shirt. It arrived yesterday, so I
wore it to the meeting. And two other people there also had Ubuntu
t-shirts. :)
Previously I just gave up and decided to give Linuxant their $20. I
downloaded the driverloader thingy and went to install it. But the
installation blew up and gave me an error message about some package
not being available for my computer. Linuxant doesn't seem to have
tech support, so I gave up on them.
While we may not have completely succeeded I learned an
enormous amount. And we got pretty far. In fact, I think we are
*extremely* close. :)
We succeeded in getting 64-bit ndiswrapper installed. We also
found 64-bit Broadcom Windows drivers
(64_bit_Broadcom_54g_Drivers.zip, which unzips to
BCMWL564.SYS and netbc564.inf). When I do ndiswrapper -l it
reports "netbx564 driver present, hardware present." But when I do
modprobe ndiswrapper it gives me --
FATAL: Error inserting ndiswrapper(/lib/modules/2.6.10-5-amd64-
k8/kernel/drivers/misc/ndiswrapper.ko): Unknown symbol in
module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg).
When I do dmesg I get --
ndiswrapper: disagrees about version of symbol
per_cpu__softnet_data
ndiswrapper: Unknown symbol per_cpu__softnet_data
ndiswrapper: disagrees about version of symbol eth_type_trans
ndiswrapper: Unknown symbol eth_type_trans
ndiswrapper: disagrees about version of symbol skb_over_panic
ndiswrapper: Unknown symbol skb_over_panic
ndiswrapper: disagrees about version of symbol alloc_skb
ndiswrapper: Unknown symbol alloc_skb
ndiswrapper: disagrees about version of symbol netif_rx
ndiswrapper: Unknown symbol netif_rx
ndiswrapper: disagrees about version of symbol
__netdev_watchdog_up
ndiswrapper: Unknown symbol __netdev_watchdog_up
ndiswrapper: disagrees about version of symbol linkwatch_fire_event
ndiswrapper: Unknown symbol linkwatch_fire_event ndiswrapper:
disagrees about version of symbol skb_copy_and_csum_dev ndiswrapper:
Unknown symbol skb_copy_and_csum_dev ndiswrapper: disagrees about
version of symbol alloc_etherdev ndiswrapper: Unknown symbol
alloc_etherdev ndiswrapper: disagrees about version of symbol
__kfree_skb ndiswrapper: Unknown symbol __kfree_skb
The kind guru who spent so much time with me thinks that the
above errors mean that ndiswrapper is having issues with my
kernel. He says to get the source for ndiswrapper and compile it. He
also opined that I wouldn't have to compile the kernel because Ubuntu
probably shows the headers. (I have no idea what any of that means.)
So here I sit, still no wireless. :(
-- Bogus e-mail address, but I read this newsgroup regularly, so reply here.
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