ndiswraaper failuer - broadcom 54g
Hello I am a newbie but I love my mandrake 10.2 x86_64. I am running it on an AMD mobile Athlon 64 (e-machine). When I tried to use ndiswrapper for my Broadcom 54g MaxPerformance 802.11g it through up an error message. It reads "Unexpected error has happened: insmod'ing module ndiswrapper failed at /usr/lib/libDrakX/modules.pm line 66" The default driver it comes up with before I tried anything is BCM 94306 802.11g NIC
I desperately need to connect to my wireless inorder to keep using Linux. Can anybody help? Thanks for helping and keeping it simple. I haven't even sucessfully installed a program manually :( JA |
If the Broadcom card you have isn't embedded in the device, I would return it and get a better card from a company that actually supports Linux like Ralink.
Oh and if you're using the AMD64 version of Linux you'll probably need the Windows 64-bit driver, I really doubt ndiswrapper would load a 32-bit driver into a 64-bit kernel. |
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No, but nothing's stopping you from spending $20 on a decent card.
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mine built in too - BUT??
Mine is built in too; on my mobile athlon 64 bit (e-machine laptop who, by the way has awesome customer service!!) I had to replace the "card" once. I unscrewed a cap on the bottom of the laptop, popped it out (like it was a PCI card) and snapped off the two nodes that were wired for the antena.
It seems that if I could replace this "embedded" card so easily, i could replace it with a Linux friendly one. I just do not know what kind (type) of "card" this would be. Any help? JA |
If I had to guess, I would say it's mini-PCI. But I haven't had any experience with that type of card.
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install a driver???
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If I remember correctly, the command is "ndiswrapper -m" to add the correct instructions to /etc/modprobe.conf to load the ndiswrapper module. You then need to feed ndiswrapper the Windoze drivers you downloaded from the link in my previous post. The file is zipped so unzip it with unzip. I think that ndiswrapper then wants ndiswrapper -i <path to windows driver .INF file>. If this all works, at this point you should probably reboot. Once the system is up, enter the command "dmesg | less". If you search for "ndis" (/ followed by ndis and then hit enter) you should see something like: ndiswrapper version 1.1 loaded (preempt=no,smp=no) ndiswrapper: driver netbc564 (,10/01/2002,3.70.17.5) loaded ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:02.0[A] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 169 ndiswrapper: using irq 169 Losing some ticks... checking if CPU frequency changed. eth0: link down wlan0: ndiswrapper ethernet device 00:90:4b:ac:8f:67 using driver netbc564, configuration file 14E4:4320:103C:12F8.5.conf wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP, WPA with TKIP, WPA with AES/CCMP The instructions on the ndiswrapper download page are way better than what I vaguely remember from getting my wireless card working so follow what they have t say if there is any conflict between their instructions and mine. It really is fairly simple if you have the right windoze driver version. |
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