Fedora cannot detect wireless card on HP pavilion (dv9502 au)
 

hi,

i have a HP Pavilion notebook (model dv9502au), and i want to make wireless internet work on Fedora...

this is the umpteenth time i have tried to install wireless card driver into fedora for my laptop...i have used fwcutter, ndiswrapper and the like, but without any success.

this is a jist of my latest attempt:

i downloaded the latest version of the broadcom wireless card driver from the hp website.



i also downloaded latest ndiswrapper source files, and installed it.

i then installed the driver using the ndiswrapper -i command.

the ndiswrapper -l command told me that the device was present.

i then executed : modprobe ndiswrapper

no output.

i then executed :dmesg | grep ndiswrapper and got the following:

ndiswrapper version 1.51 loaded (smp=yes, preempt=no)
ndiswrapper (import:242): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisMRegisterInterruptEx'
ndiswrapper (import:242): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisMIndicateStatusEx'
ndiswrapper (import:242): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisFreeNetBufferList'
ndiswrapper (import:242): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisAllocateMdl'
ndiswrapper (import:242): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisFreeMdl'
ndiswrapper (import:242): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisMRegisterMiniportDriver'
ndiswrapper (import:242): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisAllocateIoWorkItem'
ndiswrapper (import:242): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisQueueIoWorkItem'
ndiswrapper (import:242): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisMSetMiniportAttributes'
ndiswrapper (import:242): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisMDeregisterInterruptEx'
ndiswrapper (import:242): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisMGetBusData'
ndiswrapper (import:242): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisMRegisterScatterGatherDma'
ndiswrapper (import:242): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisAllocateNetBufferListPool'
ndiswrapper (import:242): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisMOidRequestComplete'
ndiswrapper (import:242): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisFreeNetBufferListPool'
ndiswrapper (import:242): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisMDeregisterScatterGatherDma'
ndiswrapper (import:242): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisMSetBusData'
ndiswrapper (import:242): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisAllocateNetBufferAndNetBufferList'
ndiswrapper (import:242): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisMSendNetBufferListsComplete'
ndiswrapper (import:242): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisMDeregisterMiniportDriver'
ndiswrapper (import:242): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisOpenConfigurationEx'
ndiswrapper (import:242): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisFreeIoWorkItem'
ndiswrapper (import:242): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisMSynchronizeWithInterruptEx'
ndiswrapper (import:242): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisMIndicateReceiveNetBufferLists'
ndiswrapper (import:242): unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:'NdisAllocateMemoryWithTagPriority'
ndiswrapper (load_sys_files:216): couldn't prepare driver 'bcmwl6'
ndiswrapper (load_wrap_driver:118): couldn't load driver bcmwl6; check system log for messages from 'loadndisdriver'
usbcore: registered new driver ndiswrapper


obviously wlan0 is not showing up when i do iwconfig....

what should i do to rectify this problem.....please help!!!!! :(

This is normal the driver loaded without an error, if you want to see something then add the verbose switch;

modprobe -v ndiswrapper

For the details see: man modprobe

Sounds like you forgot to blacklist and remove the b43 and ssb drivers before installing the ndiswrapper module.

cat /proc/modules | grep b43

modprobe -r b43
modprobe -r ssb


Add to the /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist file at the end;

#wireless
blacklist b43
blacklist ssb

Make sure that the /etc/modprobe.conf file has been edited for the b43 alias and ndiswapper alias.

# alias eth1 b43
alias wlan0 ndiswrapper

Also make sure you have the ifcfg-wlan0 file in the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts directory.