Ndiswrapper Dell Inspiron 1520 BCM4328

[bbfuller]

Hello Sean,

That's two of us it's driving nuts now! However, I've just been looking around on the internet and it does appear that in some circumstances other broadcom drivers can interfere with the ability of the broadcom-wl to work.

That's a pity as you have a broadcom wired ethernet device and if my suspicions turn out to be correct you may not ever get them both working without configuration changes each time you want to use the other.

We'll see IF there is an answer to that later.

For the moment you may care to edit the file:

/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

you'll need to do that as root, and add the lines:

blacklist bcm43xx
blacklist ssb
blacklist b43
blacklist b44
blacklist ndiswrapper

I think some of those are superfluous, but lets try a shotgun approach.

After that reboot the machine and see what wireless does.

If it doesn't make any difference, and you are relying on the wireless machine to post, you'll need to remove those lines and reboot again to get the wired interface to work.

I'll look for your reply with interest!

Bernard

[clueless]

Bernard,

As it happens, if I can get the wl working always, I wouldn't mind if the Ethernet didn't. For me its there at initial install and then I am fine without it.

I am not sure what I am missing, but this is what I got back, as root!


[root@davis ~]# /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
-bash: /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf: Permission denied
[root@davis ~]# /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
-bash: /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf: Permission denied
[root@davis ~]#


As you can see, I tried twice copying a different way in case I did it wrong. What is the /etc I have seen it before, but don't understand the purpose.

Sean

[bbfuller]

Hello Sean,

Ah, misunderstanding there. "etc" is a folder under "/" in your file system and "modprobe.d" is a folder inside "etc". "blacklist.conf" is a file which needs to be edited within that second folder. You'll do that using a text editing program.

I assume you are using Gnome in Fedora? I'm not, I use KDE, so I'll have to guess just how it works there.

Open a terminal window.

In that window type:

su -

and tap enter. That'll prompt for your root password and then give you a terminal window with full root permissions. Space between su and - by the way.

Type:

gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

space between gedit and /. Then tap enter.

That should bring up your text editor with the blacklist.conf file open in it.

Scroll to the end of the file and add the lines from my previous post.

Save, close the text editor and reboot. See what happens. Be prepared to do the same thing to remove the changes if they don't have the desired effect.

Good Luck.

Bernard

[clueless]

Bernard,

The saga continues. I got the prompt added the 4 lines at the end, but reading it, I wondered if I should have added it after viafb line? Anyway I stuck it at the end and here is the response.

[root@davis ~]# gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

# watchdog drivers
blacklist i8xx_tco

# framebuffer drivers
blacklist aty128fb
blacklist atyfb
blacklist radeonfb
blacklist i810fb
blacklist cirrusfb
blacklist intelfb
blacklist kyrofb
blacklist i2c-matroxfb
blacklist hgafb
blacklist nvidiafb
blacklist rivafb
blacklist savagefb
blacklist sstfb
blacklist neofb
blacklist tridentfb
blacklist tdfxfb
blacklist virgefb
blacklist vga16fb
blacklist viafb

# ISDN - see bugs 154799, 159068
blacklist hisax
blacklist hisax_fcpcipnp

# sound drivers
blacklist snd-pcsp

# I/O dynamic configuration support for s390x (bz #563228)
blacklist chsc_sch
blacklist bcm43xx
blacklist ssb
blacklist b43
blacklist b44
blacklist ndiswrapper

(gedit:20560): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to store changes into `/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel', but failed: Failed to create file '/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel.BBUTGW': No such file or directory

(gedit:20560): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to set the permissions of `/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel', but failed: No such file or directory

(gedit:20560): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to store changes into `/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel', but failed: Failed to create file '/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel.NR17GW': No such file or directory

(gedit:20560): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to set the permissions of `/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel', but failed: No such file or directory

(gedit:20560): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to store changes into `/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel', but failed: Failed to create file '/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel.A8GCHW': No such file or directory

(gedit:20560): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to set the permissions of `/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel', but failed: No such file or directory

(gedit:20560): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to store changes into `/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel', but failed: Failed to create file '/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel.0ZL8GW': No such file or directory

(gedit:20560): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to set the permissions of `/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel', but failed: No such file or directory
[root@davis ~]#


Sean[COLOR="Silver"]

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Bernard,

Tragic ;-) it works!! Thank you. I may beat a path to your door if the kernel updated and it all goes south again. Then again, I have a Dell1525 that just started playing up. I will first try and retrace my steps to see what I know. The trouble with following instructions can be that am doing not understanding all that much.

Sean

[bbfuller]

Hello Sean,

That's brilliant news.

Can't take the credit for the answer though. I ran it to earth in this thread:

http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?p=1268403

post #4.

Good job we got it fixed when we did, I'm off on a weeks holiday within hours. I'm not sure if I'll get internet there or not...........or if I'll look.

Incidentally, "lspci -k", which we used earlier should now show the "wl" driver assigned to your card.

Enjoy the wireless.

Bernard