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Old 01-17-2009, 03:44 PM   #1
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Question trying to get ndiswrapper working on gentoo - no wlan showing


i am trying to get ndiswrapper going with wireless-tools (although wireless-supplicant is also installed)

ndiswrapper -l shows the driver installed and the device indentified but no wlan is coming up at boot.

Where to start????
 
Old 01-17-2009, 04:12 PM   #2
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What does ifconfig and iwconfig show? Can you also show the line that gives your wireless card from the output of lspci please.
 
Old 01-17-2009, 04:54 PM   #3
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What does ifconfig and iwconfig show? Can you also show the line that gives your wireless card from the output of lspci please.
zawacki danz # ifconfig
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:14:BF:5D:82:8B
inet addr:192.168.0.117 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::214:bfff:fe5d:828b/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:739 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:26 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:241623 (235.9 Kb) TX bytes:2301 (2.2 Kb)
Interrupt:19 Base address:0x8c00

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

(eth0 above is a wired lan card)

zawacki danz # iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

dummy0 no wireless extensions.

wmaster0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Tx-Power=0 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thrff Fragment thr=2352 B
Encryption keyff
Power Managementff
Link Quality:0 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

wmaster1 no wireless extensions.

wlan1 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Tx-Power=0 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thrff Fragment thr=2352 B
Encryption keyff
Power Managementff
Link Quality:0 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

wmaster2 no wireless extensions.

wlan2 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Tx-Power=0 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thrff Fragment thr=2352 B
Encryption keyff
Power Managementff
Link Quality:0 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

hwsim0 no wireless extensions.

eth1 no wireless extensions.

yam0 no wireless extensions.

yam1 no wireless extensions.

yam2 no wireless extensions.

yam3 no wireless extensions.

bcsf0 no wireless extensions.

bcsf1 no wireless extensions.

bcsf2 no wireless extensions.

bcsf3 no wireless extensions.

bcsh0 no wireless extensions.

bcsh1 no wireless extensions.

bcsh2 no wireless extensions.

bcsh3 no wireless extensions.

bcp0 no wireless extensions.

bcp1 no wireless extensions.

bcp2 no wireless extensions.

bcp3 no wireless extensions.

bce0 no wireless extensions.

bce1 no wireless extensions.

bce2 no wireless extensions.

bce3 no wireless extensions.

sit0 no wireless extensions.

nr0 no wireless extensions.

nr1 no wireless extensions.

nr2 no wireless extensions.

nr3 no wireless extensions.

rose0 no wireless extensions.

rose1 no wireless extensions.

rose2 no wireless extensions.

rose3 no wireless extensions.

rose4 no wireless extensions.

rose5 no wireless extensions.

rose6 no wireless extensions.

rose7 no wireless extensions.

rose8 no wireless extensions.

rose9 no wireless extensions.

bpq0 no wireless extensions.
##############################################

lspci

01:08.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
 
Old 01-17-2009, 06:34 PM   #4
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http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-547687.html should get you up and running! Basically, ditch ndiswrapper and use the native driver.

I also notice that you have an awful lot of alleged wireless cards on your box - which kernel did you opt for? Genkernel or pure hand built?
 
Old 01-18-2009, 09:40 AM   #5
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http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-547687.html should get you up and running! Basically, ditch ndiswrapper and use the native driver.

I also notice that you have an awful lot of alleged wireless cards on your box - which kernel did you opt for? Genkernel or pure hand built?
I did not know if I had the right dirver so i built the, all in to the kernel, lol.

Well I cut the firmware and I loaded the module b43 but lsmod shows:

Module
43

Size
131360

Used by
0

Any idea what is wrong? I'm using fw13 which is what dmesg shos as the right firmware.
 
Old 01-18-2009, 09:49 AM   #6
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I try to do:

iwlist wlan0 scanning essid dlink

wlan0 Interface doesn't support scanning : Network is down
 
Old 01-18-2009, 11:10 AM   #7
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Well I got the ndiswrapper method to find the card and I can scan and see netowrks but I can not connect to any... any ideas?

EDIT: Now I can see g networks and connect to them but I can't ping www.google.com

I can ping the subnet and leased ip wlan0 is holding though.

Last edited by Thaidog; 01-18-2009 at 12:18 PM.
 
Old 01-21-2009, 02:49 AM   #8
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NDISwrapper Installation Video

Hi!I am also looking for some info on NDISwrapper.I've not yet installed it(am trying to collect as much info as possible so that I don't mess up later.)

In the process,I stumbled upon the following videohttp://linuxtutorialvideos.blogspot....iswrapper.htmlwhich shows the installation of NDISwrapper and also some basic troubleshooting.

Don't know if it'll be useful to you,but decided to share it anyway.
 
  


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