Broadcom 4318/Ndiswrapper on FC5-64 (HP nx6125)

[Scruffy]

I am currently trying to get the wireless working on my 64-bit HP nx6125 with FC5-64, but I am having problems. Everything seems to work ok. Ndiswrapper compiles and installs, and 'modprobe -l' tells me the hardware and driver are present. When I try to 'iwconfig wlan0 essid <ssid name>' I get an error.

When I 'dmesg' to check Ndiswrapper I get this little beauty:
ndiswrapper version 1.10 loaded (preempt=no,smp=yes)
ndiswrapper (check_nt_hdr:149): Windows driver is not 64-bit; bad magic: 010B
ndiswrapper (load_sys_files:213): couldn't prepare driver 'bcmwl5a'
ndiswrapper (load_wrap_driver:111): loadndiswrapper failed (65280); check system log for messages from 'loadndisdriver'
ndiswrapper (free_all_objects:335): object ffff81001bbe3e28 type 2 was not freed, freeing it now

Any ideas? Does anyone know if there is a 64-bit driver for the Broadcom BCM4318? I got this one from the HP site. Broadcom do not seem to do any!!!

[Scruffy]

Hurrah! All sorted now. I managed to get 95% there, downloading Acer drivers etc but I was unable to get it to work. Thanks to SMFinley I have now managed it.

SMFinley has posted instructions which can be found here:
http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=100195&highlight=ndiswrapper

[3dre]

Did you get it to a 100% working? I followed his post and installed ndiswrapper with the acer drivers.
Ndiswrapper finds the hardware. but when i try to activate it, it says: 'ndiswrapper device wlan0 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization'

when i lspci It locates my wifi as airforce BCM4318 (rev 2)

Could this have anything to do with the kernel-upgrade I did to get my nvidia 7300Go to work?

My hardware:
Asus Laptop Z9200KM

Any suggestions??

[ms2502]

I figured out that the kernel stack has to be >12KB for ndiswrapper with 64Bit Windows driver. Did you compile a special kernel to get your card working ?

Since now, I had no success...

[Scruffy]

3dre, yes I did get it 100% working. If you are having problems I would post on the original thread where I provided the link above. It took me a while to get this sorted but to be honest I got my driver from here: http://support.acer-euro.com/drivers/notebook/as_3020_5020.html
because I needed a 64-bit version.

ms2502, No I did not recompile the kernel with a 12KB stack to get it working.

[3dre]

I also solved it. The problem I had was because I tried to use the 32-bits drivers. After installing wirh 64-bits drivers it works perfectly.
:)
Thanks guys