ndiswrapper and ssb problems. Blue light does not come up.

[nariknahom]

Hi,

I am using Fedora 8 x86_64 on my HPdv6000 laptop which has a Broadcom Corporation BCM4310 UART (rev 01) wireless card. So installed the driver (ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp34001-34500/sp34152.exe) with ndiswrapper. b43-fwcuttter, bcm43-fwcutter, etc are removed. I have blacklisted b43, ssb. Still I get this and the blue light never comes up.

# ndiswrapper -l
bcmwl5 : driver installed
device (14E4:4312) present (alternate driver: ssb)



# dmesg | grep ndiswrapper
ndiswrapper version 1.48 loaded (smp=yes, preempt=no)
ndiswrapper (link_pe_images:576): fixing KI_USER_SHARED_DATA address in the driver
ndiswrapper: driver bcmwl5 (Broadcom,10/12/2006, 4.100.15.5) loaded
ndiswrapper: using IRQ 19
usbcore: registered new interface driver ndiswrapper

# dmesg | grep wlan0
wlan0: ethernet device 00:14:a5:f6:e9:80 using NDIS driver: bcmwl5, version: 0x4640f05, NDIS version: 0x501, vendor: 'NDIS Network Adapter', 14E4:4312.5.conf
wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP; TKIP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK; AES/CCMP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks.

[Brian1]

Check post #64 for other modules to blacklist plus the ssb you mention is in the last post.
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=170734&page=5&highlight=mess

Brian

[nariknahom]

the instructions here - http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum...&highlight=mess - did not work for me. so i decided to unintsall ndiswrapper and try again. Again it doesnt work but I have newer problems now. 'ndiswrapper -l' shows the following output

[root@dhcppc0 ~]# ndiswrapper -l
bcmwl5 : driver installed
[root@dhcppc0 ~]#

Its missing this part
device (14E4:4312) present (alternate driver: ssb)

Also /sbin/lspci output used to show.
03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11a/b/g (rev 01)

Now it shows nothing for Network controller.
[root@dhcppc0 ~]# lspci | grep -i broadcom
[root@dhcppc0 ~]#

Any idea?

[nariknahom]

after 2-3 restarts lspci and ndiswrapper -l are working

[root@dhcppc0 ~]# lspci | grep -i broadcom
03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11a/b/g (rev 01)

[root@dhcppc0 ~]# ndiswrapper -l
bcmwl5 : driver installed
device (14E4:4312) present (alternate driver: ssb)



But as you can see 'ssb' still shows up in the ndiswrapper -l output.

I have added
[root@dhcppc0 ~]# cat /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist | tail
# ISDN - see bugs 154799, 159068
blacklist hisax
blacklist hisax_fcpcipnp

#inserted by aryan for ndiswrapper
blacklist b43
blacklist bcm43xx
blacklist mac80211
blacklist rc80211_simple
blacklist cfg80211

[root@dhcppc0 ~]# cat /etc/rc.local | tail
touch /var/lock/subsys/local
service NetworkManager stop
service NetworkManagerDispatcher stop
rmmod b44
rmmod ssb
modprobe ndiswrapper
modprobe b44
modprobe mii
service NetworkManager start
service NetworkManagerDispatcher start
[root@dhcppc0 ~]#


Any idea what to do next?

[nariknahom]

here is the end of the dmesg output

ndiswrapper version 1.48 loaded (smp=yes, preempt=no)
ndiswrapper (link_pe_images:576): fixing KI_USER_SHARED_DATA address in the driver
ndiswrapper: driver bcmwl5 (Broadcom,10/12/2006, 4.100.15.5) loaded
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:00.0[A] -> Link [LK4E] -> GSI 19 (level, high) -> IRQ 19
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:03:00.0 to 64
ndiswrapper: using IRQ 19
wlan0: ethernet device 00:14:a5:f6:e9:80 using NDIS driver: bcmwl5, version: 0x4640f05, NDIS version: 0x501, vendor: 'NDIS Network
Adapter', 14E4:4312.5.conf
wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP; TKIP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK; AES/CCMP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK
usbcore: registered new interface driver ndiswrapper
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
fuse init (API version 7.8)
eth0: no IPv6 routers present