Re: [suse-amd64] Broadcom Wireless Card / ndiswrapper - Suse 10 (64-bit)

On Wednesday 08 February 2006 06:30, guru shashi wrote: I'm using an R3000 laptop as well (suse 10 x86_64), but it sounds like we have the same Broadcom cards. i'm using the 1.8 version of ndiswrapper. i've always been able to install/upgrade my ndiswrapper by following the directions on the sourceforge.net site. 1 - either su to root, or log in as root. Then change directory to the place where you unpackaged the ndiswrapper software. There should be a README, INSTALL, etc files and a Makefile present. 2 - do a series of (make uninstall). i believe you are supposed to do it as long as you see messages indicating that it found something to remove. I do this about 5-6 times just because i've been bit by having an older version of ndiswrapper lying around: make uninstall make uninstall make uninstall make uninstall make uninstall make uninstall 3 - make distclean 4 - make 5 - make install (now, setup your driver) ndiswrapper -i netbc564.inf ndiswrapper -l (should see) Installed ndis drivers: netbc564 driver present, hardware present 6 - modprobe ndiswrapper When finished you should see something similar to this in the /var/log/messages file Feb 2 20:20:43 gandalf kernel: ndiswrapper: module not supported by Novell, setting U taint flag. Feb 2 20:20:43 gandalf kernel: ndiswrapper version 1.8 loaded (preempt=no,smp=no) Feb 2 20:20:43 gandalf kernel: ndiswrapper (load_pe_images:571): fixing KI_USER_SHARED_DATA address in the driver Feb 2 20:20:43 gandalf kernel: ndiswrapper: driver netbc564 (,10/01/2002,3.70.17.5) loaded

Sorry for forgetting to mention this .......... I have a Acer 5002 LM amd64 which comes with a built in Broadcom wireless card.

On 2/8/06, Constantine 'Gus' Fantanas wrote:

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I do not have your particular laptop; mine is a Compaq R3000Z-series AMD64 laptop, but uses the same wifi chipset as yours. I got mine working by buying the driver from Linuxant (www.linuxant.com). However, in the wiki page for the R3000Z, you may find detailed instructions --and pitfalls to avoid-- on how to use ndiswrapper. It may work out well for you since the Wifi chipset is the same. Here is the direct link:

http://prinsig.se/weekee/index.php/Networking_%28hw%29#Wireless

Mine works fine uner Linuxant. Linuxant's installation is a breeze, too. I know its not quite open source, but it works. Also, make sure to get the latest driver (ndiswrapper or Linuxant) because earlier drivers for the Broadcom wifi had trouble with system memory over 1 GB (I think that the Broadcom hardware was/is at fault and newer drivers work around that problem). Also, I was told by Linuxant, in relation to a modem problem I had with a 32-bit SuSE, that the Windows drivers do not like pre-emptible kernels. I am not sure how much of that would apply to 64-bit wifi drivers, but it may be an issue to watch for.

There may be (a) web page(s) particular to your laptop. Perhaps in www.tuxmobile.com?

Hope this helps.

CF PS. Some people tried to substitute the Broadcom wifi on the HP Compaq R3000Z laptops (and their twin brothers Pavillion 5000) with Prism or something with native Linux support, but HP's BIOS is programmed to allow only the peripherals HP likes!!!!!!!!!

guru shashi wrote:

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Hi,

I am trying to setup a wireless card on Suse 10.0 (x86_64) on a Acer

laptop.

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Well, I found loads of links that tells what to do using ndiswrapper ...

and

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executed all the steps mentioned, but no luck and could not bring up the interface. I badly need to get this card running. My card is an Broadcom BCM4318, Airforce one 54g.

Steps I followed:

1. Download version 1.5 and 1.9 of ndiswrapper and the 64-bit drivers

for

...

Wireless card

2. make and make install of the ndiswrapper

3. depmod -a modprobe ndiswrapper -> This step initially failed .. this output

something

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like

"FATAL: Error inserting ndiswrapper

(/lib/modules/2.6.13-15-default/misc/*

...

ndiswrapper.ko*) invalid argument"

Later when I rebooted my system .. could not see this message any longer

..

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and continued with the next steps after ensuring ndiswrapper was listed

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lsmod | grep ndiswrapper

5. ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf and ndiswrapper -l (to list) -> went fine ... it said hardware and driver

found

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ndiswrapper -m (to create a alias)

6. #dmsg output: loadndiswrapper failed (1792)

7. Configure wireless card using YaST .. this was cool and all went fine

8. rcnetwork restart -> here only my loopback interface and eth0

restarted

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could not see the wlan0 inferface. ifconfig showed details only about

eth0

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and lo.

I sincerely appreciate suggestions, thoughts, help and thanks in

advance.

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Best Regardz, Guru

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