[Darkmage]

I originally had a write up on linuxquestions.org at Broadcom (http://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl/showproduct.php?product=810) but after some time, I found an easy way of making things work

If you want ndiswrapper from cvs then use the above link else download the stable version from
ndiswrapper (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ndiswrapper/)

or
Please make sure kernel-devel is installed to make the install easy and painless :)
If you have FC4 and have /etc/yum.repo.d/livna.repo configured

[livna-stable]
name=Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (stable)
baseurl=http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/RPMS.lvn
enabled=0
gpgcheck=1



# yum --enablerepo=livna-stable install ndiswrapper kernel-module-ndiswrapper-$(uname -r)


or for FC5 do this

# yum -y install kmod-ndiswrapper

For my case, I have a Broadcom BCM9306 chipset and the windows driver needed is bcmwl5.inf and bcmwl5.sys. Move both files to a folder in your home directory called bcmwl. I hope you know you first have to creat the folder bcmwl
mkdir bcmwl

Do the "make install" only if you have the source file. I will strongly recommend the rpm file from livna
Open a terminal and uncompress ndiswrapper.

Go to the ndiswrapper folder and as root

#make install --do this if you downloaded the source file or skip this if you used the livna rpm



# /usr/sbin/ndiswrapper -i <your home directory>/bcmwl/bcmwl5.inf
...this command will create a folder in /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/bcmwl5.inf
# /usr/sbin/ndiswrapper -l
-- make sure it says "bcmwl5 present"
# /sbin/depmod -a
#/sbin/modprobe ndiswrapper
# dmesg
--you will see a log about the driver been loaded if you do then
# /usr/sbin/ndiswrapper -m
--create an alias in /etc/modprobe.conf


Here comes the easy part :cool:
close terminal and point your cursor to Desktop -->System Settings -->Network Configuration and type in the root's password when prompted.
In Network Configuration, click on New and then "Select Device type box" shows, highlight Wireless connection and click on "Forward".
This brings up the "Select Wireless Device box" window, which has ndiswrapper(wlan0) highlighted, then click "Forward".
This bring up the "Configure Wireless Connection box" which allows you to set the mode, ssid, channel, rate and hex key. After you are done, click "Forward"
This brings up the "Configure Network Settings box" which allows you to set the dhcp, dns and ip address. When you are done, then click forward.
The next box "Create Wireless Device box" has all you settings for you to double check before hitting apply.
When you hit apply, it should take you back to Network Configuration, highlight the created wlan0 and click "Edit" which allows you to fine tune the configuration, like if you want all users to be able to enable wlan0, if you want wlan0 to start on boot etc. Go though the tabs and check everything and make sure it is up to your specification, then click "Ok" and then the final thing
on "Network Configuration", click on "File" and then "Save"

If every is correct, you can then click on activate to activate wlan0

If you have any constructive comments please post

Below are screenshots and broadcom drivers and on page 13, I have posted the newer driver

[SQFreak]

My wireless card (Dell TrueMobile 1350 I think) requires bcmwl5a. It works fine when I use the commandline utilities to work with it (iwconfig, iwscan, dhcpd, ifconfig, etc.), but the Network utility won't see the card.

ndiswrapper version 0.12 loaded (preempt=no,smp=no)
usbcore: registered new driver dellomci
ndiswrapper: driver dellomci () added
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:01:03.0[A] -> GSI 7 (level, low) -> IRQ 7
ndiswrapper: using irq 7
divert: allocating divert_blk for wlan0
wlan0: ndiswrapper ethernet device 00:90:96:bb:f6:69 using driver bcmwl5a
wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP, WPA with TKIP, WPA with AES/CCMP
ndiswrapper: driver bcmwl5a (Broadcom,02/17/2004, 3.40.65.0) added
ndiswrapper: driver bcmwl5 (Broadcom,02/17/2004, 3.40.65.0) added

Any suggestions?

[Darkmage]

What is the output of /etc/modprobe.conf

[Shadow Skill]

Gah I finally got my card to work again after reading this, I forgot about the -m flag that creates the appropriate alias for ndiswrapper. I was starting to loose hope until I read this, thanks for posting it.

[Darkmage]

I am glad this helped and yes you are right the key to ndiswrapper in Fedora is
ndiswrapper -m
I think this allows the Network Configuration to detect it and can then be configured with the gui tool :D

[Shadow Skill]

that creates the alias the gui tool needs in modprobe.conf...elusive thing it is.

[andywhitehurst]

hi there...

i followed this guide and it seems to have worked without any problems... having manually set the ip details for my dlink dwl-g520+ card from my router's ip management details i can activate the wireless connection...

i'm pretty green when it comes to linux however and i was wondering what else i need to do to actually get the internet working; i get a 'google.co.uk could not be found' type error when i run firefox... am i missing something really obvious?

[Darkmage]

[QUOTE=andywhitehurst]hi there...

i followed this guide and it seems to have worked without any problems... having manually set the ip details for my dlink dwl-g520+ card from my router's ip management details i can activate the wireless connection...

i'm pretty green when it comes to linux however and i was wondering what else i need to do to actually get the internet working; i get a 'google.co.uk could not be found' type error when i run firefox... am i missing something really obvious?[/QUOTE]

Since you can activate your wireless connection, post the output of
/sbin/iwconfig

[solidsnake]

Beautiful, hopefully this is the solution to my problem. :P

EDIT: Do I still have to make a symlink for the modules folder? That seems to be my main area of frustration. :(

[Darkmage]

[QUOTE=solidsnake]Beautiful, hopefully this is the solution to my problem. :P

EDIT: Do I still have to make a symlink for the modules folder? That seems to be my main area of frustration. :([/QUOTE]

Please specify what modules you want to make a symlink to. I am trying to understand your question.

[solidsnake]

[QUOTE=Darkmage]Please specify what modules you want to make a symlink to. I am trying to understand your question.[/QUOTE]

It seems I resolved that problem, ndiswrapper works fine, however, now i get this error when trying to install the .inf file:

Installing mrv8k51
Parse error in inf. Unable to find section W8100PCI.zerocfg
Parse error in inf. Unable to find section W8100PCI.zerocfg
Parse error in inf. Unable to find section W8100PCI.zerocfg

Wireless card is a DWL-G510, driver was downloaded from dlink for the revA version. I'm stuck at this point, because ndiswrapper says it is installed even though i get the above error, but it will not work. :(

[Darkmage]

[QUOTE=solidsnake]It seems I resolved that problem, ndiswrapper works fine, however, now i get this error when trying to install the .inf file:

Installing mrv8k51
Parse error in inf. Unable to find section W8100PCI.zerocfg
Parse error in inf. Unable to find section W8100PCI.zerocfg
Parse error in inf. Unable to find section W8100PCI.zerocfg

Wireless card is a DWL-G510, driver was downloaded from dlink for the revA version. I'm stuck at this point, because ndiswrapper says it is installed even though i get the above error, but it will not work. :([/QUOTE]

My suggestion as root, delete /etc/ndiswrapper with
rm -fr /etc/ndiswrapper
then install your *.inf file again with
ndiswrapper -i <this contains the location of your .inf file

After the above, try to bring up your wireless connection

[solidsnake]

Darkmage,

I believe I was using an incorrect driver, or I completed one of the steps out of place. Everything works now! :D Your guide was a big help, thanks again mate ;)

My installation of a DWL-G510 RevB:

Before I begin, I want to say that you need to update your kernel to a 16k stack size first and foremost: http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/index.php/Fedora

I copied the drivers from the install CD included with my wireless PCI card directly to my home folder.

After running # make install, I had to run "# bash -l" in order for it to recognize the ndiswrapper command.

All other installation was just as Darkmage described, hopefully you are all familiar enough with routers to get the IP information set correctly for the wireless card. For some reason, the software made it default to Channel 1, and I cannot seem to change this option, so I set my router to broadcast 802.11g on Channel 1 instead of 9.

I was running WEP and a MAC filter on my wireless network prior to this, but I had to disable all of them in order to troubleshoot this card. Now, I guess I will gradually turn those options back on and see if I can get them to work properly. :D

All I can say is patience and perseverence will get you up and running 8)

[Darkmage]

@solidsnake
I am glad you got it working. :D The 16k stack is recommended but not required because I am using the development kernel.
For the Channel, the default is 1 but, you can change it.
Click on System settings,
then highlight and click on Network,
type in the root password,
hightlight your wireless connection
Click Edit on the Top menu
Go to the tab that says Wireless Settings
Here you can change the Channel, add the WEP key 0x before the hex numbers, transmit rate, ssid and Mode.

I am using Mac filtering and WEP encryption as I type this response

[solidsnake]

That is good to know!

One more question: It seems that it takes my computer about 2-5 minutes to establish a conneciton after being idle.

Example: I launch Firefox, it states that is it "looking up <website>" for a few minutes, then it works fine from then on. Is there a service that I should be running to stop that?

[Predator]

Ok i have walked through this whole thing and i get a message saying link not present when i try to activate the wlan0.
I started by following another tutorial on this and every thing was going fine until i got to a step where i ran: insmod ndiswrapper. this command said ndiswrapper was not the propper format. i dont see this step in your tutorial. I also have no idea why the insmod failed as everything had been working up untill then.
When i type:ndiswrapper -l it tells me that bcmwl5 is present and hardware is present. i then run dmesg and that means nothing to me. then i type ndiswrapper -m and it works fine. i have checked the .conf file and the alias is there. Also ndiswrapper wlan0 shows up in the GUI. Its just that when i try to activate it i get a message saying connection not present. "Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) :
SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument.

Determining IP information for wlan0... failed; no link present. Check cable?"
Please help me im going nuts
thanks

[Darkmage]

What kernel are you using and do you have an encryption setting -WEP.

Also post the output of
vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0

and please remove any sensitive information you don't want the whole world to know about :D

[Predator]

Here is the out put.
# Please read /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt
# for the documentation of these parameters.
IPV6INIT=no
ONBOOT=yes
USERCTL=yes
PEERDNS=yes
GATEWAY=
TYPE=Wireless
DEVICE=wlan0
HWADDR=00:90:4b:a8:bf:02
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
NETMASK=
DHCP_HOSTNAME=
IPADDR=
DOMAIN=
ESSID=
CHANNEL=1
MODE=Auto
RATE=54Mb/s

I am running fedora core 3 2.6.10-1.770.
Thanks for any input.
Isnt my WiFi light suposed to come on when it has been initialized? Beause my lite never comes on. So it would not be an issue with encryption right i mena the driver would have to be working well enough to turn on the hardware before that could be the issue.
How do i know what is going on in terms of the driver communicating with my hardware?

[Darkmage]

@Predator
ifcfg-wlan0 look okay, the only thing I can think of, is a driver problem. Maybe you have the wrong driver or a corrupted driver.
Try removing /etc/ndiswrapper as root
then go to the ndiswrapper folder and
ndiswrapper -i <location of you .inf driver for device>

About the light coming on, mine never came on, and it still worked, I have no idea why.

[FirstDivision]

Hi,

I didn't see anywhere in your howto about linking to the linux source files. I know the ndiswrapper instructions mention that you need to create a link to the kernal sources at /lib/modules/VERSION/build (http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/index.php/Installation).

I tried creating this link following the instructions on the previous link but it didn't seem to work, or it didn't need to be created. The output I get is:

[root@localhost linux-2.6.11-1.1233_FC4]# ln -s /usr/src/linux-2.6.11-1.1233_FC4 /lib/modules/2.6.11-1.1233_FC4/build
ln: `/lib/modules/2.6.11-1.1233_FC4/build': File exists


Now, when I try to do the #make install, I get the following error, which seems to indicate that the above link isn't there:

[root@localhost ndiswrapper-1.1]# make install
make -C driver install
make[1]: Entering directory `/root/ndiswrapper-1.1/driver'
Can't find kernel sources in /lib/modules/2.6.11-1.1233_FC4/build;
give the path to kernel sources with KSRC=<path> argument to make
make[1]: *** [prereq_check] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/ndiswrapper-1.1/driver'
make: *** [install] Error 2


Another instruction in the ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net instructions is to "make sure you have started compiling the kernel sources, so needed header files are present. I definitely haven't done this, because I don't know how. But I don't know if it should really have to be done (mainly because you didn't seem to need to).

So anyway, that's where I stand. I've tried to provide as much info as possible.

:)

FD

[Darkmage]

@FirstDivision
I just realised you are using the development kernel, then you will need the kernel-devel package installed but, you will not need to make a link.
Remove the link, install the kernel-devel package and do a make install in ndiswrapper. :D

[FirstDivision]

Ahhh, thanks Darkmage. That sounds very promising. I'll give it a shot.

[FirstDivision]

I finally got it working!

First what I did was download FC3 because I didn't think I needed to be running the Test release since I'm such a noob.

I ran through the install but kept running into a "link not present, check cable." I figured it was something wrong with the ndiswrapper driver. NOPE!

Apparently I had hit the Fn+F2 key that disabled the cards radi;o. Of course I didn't know that because there's no visual icon to see that (gotta be able to see it somewhere huh?)

Anyway, I booted back into Windows to make sure that the card could still connect to the AP (I was changing settings on that too), that's when I noticed what had happened. Boy, I wish I had done that 4 hours ago, lol.

Thanks for the guide and tips. It feels good to be wireless again. Woo hoo!

-FD

[sfc_bugger]

OK, WEP works fine, but, what about WPA?? Why bother getting WEP to work when your neighbor can break your key with commodity software (Kesmit, AirSnort, etc..) and a decent box. I got my wireless card working no problem, does anyone have a nice how-to for the set-up of the WPA supplicant package?

[sfc_bugger]

By the way, excellent work up by DarkImage, I am normally a Slackware user, thought I would try Fedora. I was about to dump the whole test based on the wireless bit, after trying to find resources on how to install ndiswrappers on the dang Core 3 install; but, I guess I'll have to relook it thanks to the excellent posts found on this site!!

Update: Found a great WPA supplicant how-to. Great!! :)

[5t3v3]

#make install

- Works fine...

#ndiswrapper -i <your home directory>/airplus/airplus.inf

No problem...

# ndiswrapper -l

Airplus Driver present, hardware present.

#modprobe ndiswrapper

When I try to modprobe the ndiswrapper, I get:
"FATAL: Module ndiswrapper not found."

# dmesg

Nothing about ndiswrapper being loaded, or airplus for that matter

# ndiswrapper -m

Yes, this created an alias to ndiswrapper.


The ndiswrapper installs fine under the FC3 GUI, but when I try to active the card, I get:

"ndiswrapper device wlan0 does not seem to ve present, delaying inistialization."

Can anyone help me out?

[Darkmage]

[QUOTE=5t3v3]#make install

- Works fine...

#ndiswrapper -i <your home directory>/airplus/airplus.inf

No problem...

# ndiswrapper -l

Airplus Driver present, hardware present.

#modprobe ndiswrapper

When I try to modprobe the ndiswrapper, I get:
"FATAL: Module ndiswrapper not found."

# dmesg

Nothing about ndiswrapper being loaded, or airplus for that matter

# ndiswrapper -m

Yes, this created an alias to ndiswrapper.


The ndiswrapper installs fine under the FC3 GUI, but when I try to active the card, I get:

"ndiswrapper device wlan0 does not seem to ve present, delaying inistialization."

Can anyone help me out?[/QUOTE]


what kernel version are you using

[gally]

Hi Darkmage,

I get an error when i do the #make install. It tells me that the gcc.sh (i forget the exact name, since I'm not at home right now) can't run lines 11 and 12. I just ran a fresh install of the newest stable fedora yesterday. Is there an extra package I need to install that this gcc.sh script needs installed to run properly? Thanks for any advice!! This post has been really helpful otherwise!

~gally

[FirstDivision]

gcc.sh (i forget the exact name, since I'm not at home right now) can't run lines 11 and 12

This sounds like a problem I had whenI was trying to install snort. It turned out that I didn't have the c++ compiler installed. i think I ended up searching and then installing it through yum with something like:

yum search gcc

or

yum search c++

to find the corect package.

However, I think I also could have gone to the "Add Remove Programs" and installed the Dev Tools or something like that. I can't remember, it was a while ago, I'm a noob, and I'm not at my linux box right now, lol....I won't mention what OS I happen to be using right now. :eek:

-FD

[gally]

Thanks FirstDivision. I'm also a noob. But trying to convert from windows. Anyhow so I got gcc compiler installed. and I went through the instructions above. I see the connection in the network properties. But when I try to connect I get:

"ndiswrapper device wlan0 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization"

Anyone got any advice?

[gally]

ah, I am happy to say I am posting from fedora. I rebooted and it came up :)

[Darkmage]

[QUOTE=gally]ah, I am happy to say I am posting from fedora. I rebooted and it came up :)[/QUOTE]

I am glad you got it to work :D

[oldman_420]

rawr! I'm not ... ndiswrapper is installed ... i've remade it twice. dmesg shows its loaded, ndiswrapper -l shows driver installed. iwlist wlan0 scan shows my AP,

iwconfig shows the connection is running (essid shows and UP-BROADCAST-RUNNING-MULTICAST shows), ifconfig shows data is being TRANSMITTED oddly enough - rx/tx numbers keep going up although Link encap:Ethernet is odd since this isnt ethernet but that might have something to do with ndiswrapper.

iwconfig shows no activity in tx/rx ... ifconfig shows eth0 is up-broadcast-multicast too although i have no ethernet connection. ... WEP doesnt work, i've used both bcmwl5.inf and bcmwl5a.inf. I had it connected ONCE for about 5 hours, then it went down... the AP works as others are connected to it using windows (open, no encryption) ...

i modprobe ndiswrapper ... ndiswrapper -m gives me "alias exists in modprobe conf already" ... ifup wlan0 -> failed failed failed

i'm using 2.6.9-1.667.stk16 ... ndiswrapper 1.1

one thing i noticed, in dmesg says ndiswrapper is active on irq10 .. ifconfig shows eth0 using irq10... i have ethernet card but its not connected!

hrm dhclient gives "recieve_packet failed on wlan0: Network is down" ... maybe this is network problem after all??

[somberi]

DarkMagic,
Thanks for your walkthrough for using ndiswrapper in fedora. I followed all your steps and when i tried to activate the wireless from the Network Manager, I get an error message saying:
"Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) :
SET failed on device eth1 ; Invalid argument."

Where am i going wrong. Should the wep key be in hex?

Thanks,
Ram

[somberi]

Sorry...Darkmage!

[Darkmage]

The wep key should be in hex and has to start with 0x and then the hex key.

[somberi]

Darkmage,
I changed the wep key to hex and even manually entered the IP info, DNS info etc. It still gave me the same error:
"Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) :
SET failed on device eth1 ; Invalid argument."
Check cable

A few days later, I was playing with Kwifimanager, when it detected the available wireless networks around me but it did not allow me to connect to any one of them. When i go to network manager and try and activate the wireless connection, it still gives me the same error as above.

I would appreciate ANY help...I'm very close to pulling my hair out!

[Darkmage]

[QUOTE=somberi]Darkmage,
I changed the wep key to hex and even manually entered the IP info, DNS info etc. It still gave me the same error:
"Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) :
SET failed on device eth1 ; Invalid argument."
Check cable

A few days later, I was playing with Kwifimanager, when it detected the available wireless networks around me but it did not allow me to connect to any one of them. When i go to network manager and try and activate the wireless connection, it still gives me the same error as above.

I would appreciate ANY help...I'm very close to pulling my hair out![/QUOTE]

How about doing the install all over. Remove the folder /etc/ndiswrapper and I assume you still have a fresh *.inf and *.sys files for your wireless nic card.. Let see if you still have the error with a fresh install. :)

[oldman_420]

in the event I cant connect, sometimes I find that if I modprobe ndiswrapper which, I presume resets the configuration (at least thats what I see) and then try setting all the paramaters again with iwconfig, it will connect. sometimes I modprobe -r ndiswrapper and then add it again works too.

[somberi]

DarkMage,
I posted that message after trying 3 different drivers from 3 different sources, including the driver on my windows cd, the driver from the ndiswrapper site AND a driver from broadcom's website!

[Darkmage]

[QUOTE=somberi]DarkMage,
I posted that message after trying 3 different drivers from 3 different sources, including the driver on my windows cd, the driver from the ndiswrapper site AND a driver from broadcom's website![/QUOTE]

I will suggest trying ndiswrapper without the wep encryption, just to see if it works. Which means your wireless router will have the wep encryption disabled

[Darkmage]

Update on ndiswrapper

Works fine with FC4 and cvs ndiswrapper and wep encryption

[somberi]

it must be either murphy's law or really bad karma!!
i updated to FC4 and used the driver from the ndsiwrapper website (broadcom driver for amd64). i've got it to a point where i had to manually enter the IP address etc.. and have got Network Configuration to 'activate' wlan0 and show that its status is 'active', but when i open Kwifimanager and click on 'Scan for networks', it gives me an error saying that no networks have been found! when i disable eth1 and try using the wireless alone, it doesnt seem to work.
very frustrating. any suggestions?
have tried the modprobe -r ndiswrapper multiple times
even tried copying my windows drivers (on the windows partition) and using those...no luck =(

[somberi]

hmm...
ndiswrapper (iw_set_bitrate:480): setting bit rate failed (C00000BB)
ndiswrapper (add_wep_key:711): adding encryption key 1 failed (C0010015)
wlan0: no IPv6 routers present

what could this mean? i found it looking through dmesg

[Gallan]

this has been very helpfull but know I have this situation:

I installed kernel source 2.6.11-1.27 and then 2.6.11-1.27_FC3.stk16 but then ndiswrapper installs fine I get right drivers but when I so modprobe ndiswrapper it gives:

[root@100 driver]# modprobe ndiswrapper
FATAL: Error inserting ndiswrapper (/lib/modules/2.6.11-1.27_FC3.stk16/misc/ndiswrapper.ko): Invalid module format

and dmesg gives:

ndiswrapper: version magic '2.6.11-1.27_FC3 686 REGPARM 4KSTACKS gcc-3.4' should be '2.6.11-1.27_FC3.stk16 686 REGPARM 16KSTACKS gcc-3.4'

so something is not done but I have read manymany pages and topics but I'm stuck and my skills are used so help me please!!! :(

[somberi]

Gallan,
based on the error message from ndiswrapper, you probably need the 16k stacks instead of the 4k stacks. check out http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/index.php/Fedora for more info

hope it works!

[somberi]

anyone have broadcom drivers for linux, or know where to find them besides the nsidwrapper site or linuxant. i've tried drivers from both and they dont seem to work!

[Darkmage]

[QUOTE=somberi]anyone have broadcom drivers for linux, or know where to find them besides the nsidwrapper site or linuxant. i've tried drivers from both and they dont seem to work![/QUOTE]

I have included my broadcom drivers on the 1st page of the right up. Hope this helps and I have no idea how to solve your problem.

[somberi]

thanks darkmage,
will try this as soon as i get home today and post results!
anyone viewing this post today, cross your fingers and pray for me!!

[Gallan]

hello Somberi

and that is the point...I'm using 2.6.11-1.27.stk16 when I chose 2.6.11-1.27 kernel in GRUB I can't even install ndiswrapper!! so there is something in kernel but what? someway it is stk16 kernel because installation is going just fine...????

[stormvice]

hi there,
I´m trying to install a D-Link DWL-G510 card on FC4. Everything looks run fine. modprobe ndiswrapper don´t give me any error message...I can add wlan0 device on Network config and setup the ip configuration...but when I try to activate wlan0, everything freezes.
What´s wrong? It is this 4 stacks problem? :confused:
i hope not...cause in ndiswrapper site there is no link to 16stacks FC4 kernel :( :(

[Darkmage]

[QUOTE=stormvice]hi there,
I´m trying to install a D-Link DWL-G510 card on FC4. Everything looks run fine. modprobe ndiswrapper don´t give me any error message...I can add wlan0 device on Network config and setup the ip configuration...but when I try to activate wlan0, everything freezes.
What´s wrong? It is this 4 stacks problem? :confused:
i hope not...cause in ndiswrapper site there is no link to 16stacks FC4 kernel :( :([/QUOTE]

What kernel and Fedora are you using?
When you did a modprobe ndiswrapper what is the output of dmesg . I just need the final part of dmesg.
When you are in Network Config do you see ndiswrapper(wlan0) or something else

[stormvice]

Thanks for the reply Darkmage, but i´ve installed FC3 again...and now i´m sure i was really doing everything right.
The problems was the 4 stack kernel on FC4. I have the same problem with FC3, but at least i have the STK16 kernel for it. STK16 installed=I´m happy to say i am on Internet trough my wireless card now. :)
i just have one more doubt: what do i need to load ndiswrapper module on boot?

[Darkmage]

[QUOTE=stormvice]Thanks for the reply Darkmage, but i´ve installed FC3 again...and now i´m sure i was really doing everything right.
The problems was the 4 stack kernel on FC4. I have the same problem with FC3, but at least i have the STK16 kernel for it. STK16 installed=I´m happy to say i am on Internet trough my wireless card now. :)
i just have one more doubt: what do i need to load ndiswrapper module on boot?[/QUOTE]

I am using the stock kernel for FC4 and I have not problems getting online.
To load ndiswrapper on boot, open Network Configuration, highlight wlan and click on "Edit". Put a check mark on "Activate device when computer starts"

[stormvice]

This problem with the STK4 original kernel happens only with certain wireless card drivers. It´s explained on the FAQ of ndiswrapper website.
DWL-G510 is one...everything runs ok...but when you try to activate... BAM!! freezes everything.

I installed the STK16, did the same config and now it´s working very well :)

I´ll wait for a STK16 FC4 kernel...till that, "welcome back FC3" :p

[thesource]

is it true that it will only work for this kernel

This will only work for kernel-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4
# yum --enablerepo=livna-stable install ndiswrapper kernel-module-ndiswrapper


???? or can I update a new kernel and still user ndiswrapper? :confused:

[somberi]

darkmage,
does Kwifimanager in fc4 have the ability to select different networks? I can now see a list of available networks when i open kwifimanager and click on 'scan networks', i can also see the same when i type: iwlist wlan0 ap.
another question, is it possible to manually assign access points?

[Darkmage]

[QUOTE=thesource]is it true that it will only work for this kernel

This will only work for kernel-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4
# yum --enablerepo=livna-stable install ndiswrapper kernel-module-ndiswrapper


???? or can I update a new kernel and still user ndiswrapper? :confused:[/QUOTE]

This will only work for the above kernel. If you update your kernel, you can wait for livna to provide a ndiswrapper kernel module or you can do a "make install" from a ndiswrapper source file.
The other choice is to make your own rpm :cool:

[Darkmage]

[QUOTE=somberi]darkmage,
does Kwifimanager in fc4 have the ability to select different networks? I can now see a list of available networks when i open kwifimanager and click on 'scan networks', i can also see the same when i type: iwlist wlan0 ap.
another question, is it possible to manually assign access points?[/QUOTE]
I haven't used Kwifimanager in FC4 but, I am about to try Wireless assistant from www.kde-apps.org and I will let you know if it works.

[zenora]

I am having some serious trouble with ndiswrapper and modprobe on Fedora Core4. I installed ndiswrapper1.2 using yum-extend.
[COLOR=Navy]
# ndiswrapper -l
bash: ndiswrapper: command not found[/COLOR]

Figured that one...
[COLOR=Navy]/usr/sbin/ndiswrapper -l
Installed ndis drivers:
mn720-ankh driver present, hardware present[/COLOR]

Then it was...
[COLOR=Navy]# modprobe ndiswrapper
bash: modprobe: command not found
# /sbin/modprobe ndiswrapper
FATAL: Module ndiswrapper not found.[/COLOR]

Somewhere it said it is looking for the .ko file. That's in
/lib/modules/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4/misc/ndiswrapper.ko

[COLOR=Red]Oh wait... I am using Kernel 2.6.12.1390_FC4. Is that why?[/COLOR]

But, this went through fine.
[COLOR=Navy]# /usr/sbin/ndiswrapper -l
Installed ndis drivers:
mn720-ankh driver present, hardware present[/COLOR]

Does anyone know what's going on with "modprobe ndsiwrapper" command?

From Desktop>>System Setting>>Network menus I have the Network Configuration window [screen!] and I have in Tab:Hardware wlan0 with status configured. I did try to setup from there but there's more errors.

1. I guess I need to get "modprobe ndiswrapper" working. Could anyone please tell me what to do?
2. Is it a kernel issue?

[zenora]

Yep, mismatch between the kernel version and ndiswrapper version. Make sure they are the same version.

[COLOR=Navy]# /usr/sbin/ndiswrapper -i /<location>/<windows-driver-file>.inf[/COLOR]
Installing <windows-driver>
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
[COLOR=Navy]# /usr/sbin/ndiswrapper -l[/COLOR]
Installed ndis drivers:
<windows-driver> driver present, hardware present
[COLOR=Navy]# /sbin/modprobe ndiswrapper
# /usr/sbin/ndiswrapper -m[/COLOR]
Adding "alias wlan0 ndiswrapper" to /etc/modprobe.conf
[COLOR=Navy]# /sbin/iwconfig[/COLOR]

Then GoTo [COLOR=Navy]Desktop>>SystemsSetting>>Network>> [/COLOR]and do as the 1st message on this thread says... it took me almost almost a month to get my Microsoft MN-730 Wireless working.

The whole darn thing can be simplified with a simple GUI. I hope someone makes one. As I've seen in many [many!] postings, Linux is weak on installation process, and especially of wireless.

[sabergo]

I've gotten my Motorola card (bcmwl5) to work using the HOWTO at the beginning of the post. All went as it should until I went to activate the card -- had to try maybe 20-30 times before it activated. Worked fine for awhile but stopped on re-boot and refused to activate again. Went through uninstall-reinstall routine multiple times, but No Go. Kwifimanager and the network connection monitor both showed a perfect signal, with Kwifi reporting the Router by name. Every check in the last 5 pages of postings worked.

My 5 year old (getting frustrated with papa in front of the computer for so long) said: "the computer isn't broke, something else is." Ah ha -- the Router. Made two changes -- channel and something on the same page as the firewall settings (i'll check if someone wants), rebooted into Linux, and it works -- even though the channel in the FC network device control is different (9 vs 6) -- and has continued to work. Download rates are double that of windows for the same file on the same site! Thats weird.

Good luck all.

steve

[zenora]

If you updated the kernel, ndiswrapper might expect the driver in the latest kernel area and the original ndiswrapper installation is pointing to older kernel area. That would be a point of failure to check. I remember driverloader [similar to ndiswrapper] recompiling from source at reboot everytime there was a FC4 kernel in the last month or so.

[P235]

Hi, I've tried the steps to the first post here but I'm having problems when I try modprobe ndiswrapper. If I try that command I get "bash: modprobe: command not found"

If I try "/sbin/modprobe ndiswrapper" I get "FATAL: Module ndiswrapper not found."

I'm a newb using FC4. I've installed ndiswrapper via yum from the repository posted above as well.

Thanks

[Darkmage]

[QUOTE=P235]Hi, I've tried the steps to the first post here but I'm having problems when I try modprobe ndiswrapper. If I try that command I get "bash: modprobe: command not found"

If I try "/sbin/modprobe ndiswrapper" I get "FATAL: Module ndiswrapper not found."

I'm a newb using FC4. I've installed ndiswrapper via yum from the repository posted above as well.

Thanks[/QUOTE]

What is the output of this command from a terminal
rpm -qa |grep kernel |sort

[P235]

[QUOTE=Darkmage]What is the output of this command from a terminal
rpm -qa |grep kernel |sort[/QUOTE]

The output is

kernel-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4
kernel-2.6.12-1.1390_FC4
kernel-module-ndiswrapper-2.6.12-1.1390_FC4-1.2-0.lvn.3.4

[Darkmage]

[QUOTE=P235]The output is

kernel-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4
kernel-2.6.12-1.1390_FC4
kernel-module-ndiswrapper-2.6.12-1.1390_FC4-1.2-0.lvn.3.4
[/QUOTE]

What is the output of /bin/uname -r

[Finalzone]

uname -r display the current kernel you use on your system

Example

$ uname -r
2.6.12-1.1390_FC4

[P235]

[QUOTE=Darkmage]What is the output of /bin/uname -r[/QUOTE]

It is:


2.6.11-1.1369_FC4

[Darkmage]

[QUOTE=P235]It is:


2.6.11-1.1369_FC4
[/QUOTE]

You are booting into linux with the wrong kernel for ndiswrapper. Try booting into kernel-2.6.12-1.1390_FC4.
Then it will be possible to run /sbin/modprobe ndiswrapper.

[P235]

Thanks Darkmage, you're very helpful. I'm posting this via my wireless card now. So where do I go if I want to be as wise about linux as you and a whole bunch of others seem to be?

Is there a way to make .6.12-1.1390_FC4 default on reboot?

[Darkmage]

[QUOTE=P235]Thanks Darkmage, you're very helpful. I'm posting this via my wireless card now. So where do I go if I want to be as wise about linux as you and a whole bunch of others seem to be?

Is there a way to make .6.12-1.1390_FC4 default on reboot?[/QUOTE]

open a terminal and used an editor -vi, emac, gedit, kate, kwrite to edit this file as root
The example I am going to give is using gedit
su -c "gedit /etc/grub.conf"
Then type in the root password

change default=1 to default=0. Save and exit. Reboot and it should boot the first kernel in your /etc/grub.conf


For more linux knowledge, I prefer a rieference book like these Fedora Books (http://fedoranews.org/mediawiki/index.php/Fedora_Core_4_Books)
I like Red Hat Fedora 4 Unleashed :D

[Confuse]

I have tried using the instructions from this howto and they have worked well in installing and loading the bcmwl5.inf driver. The problem is that the redhat network gui can't configure the card for some reason. I have to do everything manually in order to get it to work properly. By manually I mean I have to use iwconfig and friends and setup my network like that. NetworkManager tries to send a dhcp package to my router connection but it times out. Is this inability of the GUI network config something thats happened to someone else?

Error I get in GUI: Determining IP information for wlan0...failed; no link present. Check cables?

[Gallan]

I installed new kernel and ndiswrapper/wlan disappearred. I have used tar.gz file with 2.6.11 kernel and here is tiny howto what I have done and everything is working

kernel 2.6.11

untar ndiswrapper
go to ndiswrapper-1.2/lib
make
make install
ndiswrapper -i "driver path"
ndiswrapper -l (lists driver info)
ndiswrapper -m (adds alias line to modprobe.conf)
modprobe ndiswrapper (if not hanging boot machine)

when kernel changed I just done make and make install again and I can use wlan OK!

[Gallan]

hello Confuse

I had that same porblem some time ago with FC3 and reason was ssid name and encryption. I didn't have to make any configuration when I installed FC4 just check channel, ssid (make it auto first), don't use encryption right away.

[lordbeholder]

running FC4 kernel 2.6.11, installed ndiswrapper from the 1.2 +CVS update, but when i boot up, it gets to the screen where it loads different services and processes and if i click details, it brings up the loopback then gets to the wlan0 and gives an error "unrecognised wireless function: "Mb/s" and the system freezes, any ideas how i might be able to fix this or atleast get my system to boot up so i can have a mess with it. any help would be grately appreciated.

[Darkmage]

[QUOTE=lordbeholder]running FC4 kernel 2.6.11, installed ndiswrapper from the 1.2 +CVS update, but when i boot up, it gets to the screen where it loads different services and processes and if i click details, it brings up the loopback then gets to the wlan0 and gives an error "unrecognised wireless function: "Mb/s" and the system freezes, any ideas how i might be able to fix this or atleast get my system to boot up so i can have a mess with it. any help would be grately appreciated.[/QUOTE]

If you have Fedora Core Disk 1, you can boot your system in rescue mode and mount your linux partition with chroot /mnt/sysimage
Edit this file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0 and change ONBOOT=yes to ONBOOT=no.
save the file, exit and restart your system without Fedora Core Disk 1.

[lordbeholder]

Excellent, I tried that, switched it off and booted up, uninstalled ndiswrapper version 1.2 and installed 1.1 and that seems to be working atm .... i do howeever get an error on boot still it is : bringing up interface wlan0: Error: unrecognised wireless request "Mb/s". however the error doesnt freeze up the system like it did with ndiswrapper version 1.2, i'm connected through it now and it seems to be working ok so unless it's a simple fix, it can stay as it is. Thanks.

[Darkmage]

[QUOTE=lordbeholder]Excellent, I tried that, switched it off and booted up, uninstalled ndiswrapper version 1.2 and installed 1.1 and that seems to be working atm .... i do howeever get an error on boot still it is : bringing up interface wlan0: Error: unrecognised wireless request "Mb/s". however the error doesnt freeze up the system like it did with ndiswrapper version 1.2, i'm connected through it now and it seems to be working ok so unless it's a simple fix, it can stay as it is. Thanks.[/QUOTE]

I get the same message and I just ignore it. I am glad that worked :D

[lordbeholder]

Thank you for the help - Over an' out!

[P235]

Hey again, I installed the new kernel for the random freezes but now when I try to ifup the wireless card - or if it tries to start automatically from reboot - it says

"ndiswrapper device wlan0 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization."

I input /usr/sbin/ndiswrapper -l and it says the driver and the hardware is present, I'm not sure what I'm missing :(

[P235]

So instead of the 2.6.12-1.1390 kernel I believe I'm trying to use the 1398 one.

[Darkmage]

[QUOTE=P235]So instead of the 2.6.12-1.1390 kernel I believe I'm trying to use the 1398 one.[/QUOTE]
For every kernel upgrade, you will need the corresponding ndiswarpper-kernel-module.

So, after booting into the new kernel, head over to livna and try to see if they have the kernel-module as stated on the first page or do a "make install" in the ndiswrapper folder. Then as root /sbin/modprobe ndiswrapper

Then you can binrg up your wireless connection. :)

[P235]

Ah, I see! Thanks a lot Dark, still cool and making newbies drool. :D

[altht]

Thanks for the how-to!! It worked awesome once I found a driver download that cabextract could open, and had the right driver.

-alan

[panama]

[QUOTE=lordbeholder]running FC4 kernel 2.6.11, installed ndiswrapper from the 1.2 +CVS update, but when i boot up, it gets to the screen where it loads different services and processes and if i click details, it brings up the loopback then gets to the wlan0 and gives an error "unrecognised wireless function: "Mb/s" and the system freezes, any ideas how i might be able to fix this or atleast get my system to boot up so i can have a mess with it. any help would be grately appreciated.[/QUOTE]

I am having the same issue. I am running kernel 2.6.12-1.1398_FC4 and and I also installed ndiswrapper from the 1.2 +CVS as well. When I tried to bing up the wireless I get error "unrecognised wireless function: "Mb/s". I tried using ndiswrapper-1.0 and ndiswrapper-1.1 still no luck. It worked fine in FC3 but I cannot seem to get it work. If anyone have suggestiong please let me know.

[panama]

I am having the same issue. I am running kernel 2.6.12-1.1398_FC4 and and I also installed ndiswrapper from the 1.2 +CVS as well. When I tried to bing up the wireless I get error "unrecognised wireless function: "Mb/s". I tried using ndiswrapper-1.0 and ndiswrapper-1.1 still no luck. It worked fine in FC3 but I cannot seem to get it work. If anyone have suggestiong please let me know.

[altht]

I also recieved that error, but then I had forgotten that I disabled the wireless function on my router during the period that I didn't have the wireless card working.

[dododoustc]

I installed ndiswrapper1.2 and 64-bit broadcomm driver but could not get it to work.


Environment:
* Presario R3000 notebook with AMD athlon 64
* Fedora Core 4 (64bit)
* Kernal 2.6.11-1.1369

What I have done:
* compiled and installed ndiswrapper 1.2 (Also tried ndiswrapper 1.1 but got no luck)
* load netbc564.inf (ndiswrapper -i netbc564.inf)
* modprobe ndiswrapper
* ndiswrapper -m
* Added device wlan0 in network configuration tool
...
when i tried to bring up the interface, it say
"Error : unrecognised wireless request "Mb/s"
Determining IP information for wlan0... failed; no link present. Check cable?"

Attached are some screen dumps you may want to look:
--------- to confirm windows driver is loaded by ndiswrapper
#ndiswrapper -l
Installed ndis drivers:
netbc564 driver present, hardware present

------dump from iwconfig
#iwconfig wlan0
Warning: Driver for device wlan0 recommend version 18 of Wireless Extension,
but has been compiled with version 17, therefore some driver features
may not be available...

wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:off/any Nickname:"localhost.localdomain"
Mode:Auto Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power:25 dBm
RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:100/100 Signal level:-10 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:1322 Missed beacon:0

**** note the number after "Invalid misc" keeps increasing

---------dump from dmesg
#dmesg
ndiswrapper: device wlan0 removed
ndiswrapper version 1.2 loaded (preempt=no,smp=no)
ndiswrapper: driver netbc564 (,10/01/2002,3.70.17.5) loaded
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:02.0[A] -> Link [LNK3] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 225
ndiswrapper: using irq 225
wlan0: ndiswrapper ethernet device 00:90:4b:5d:ca:b7 using driver netbc564, configuration file 14E4:4320:103C:12F4.5.conf
wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP, WPA with TKIP, WPA with AES/CCMP
ndiswrapper (iw_set_bitrate:480): setting bit rate failed (C00000BB)

Any help will be highly appreciated!

[dododoustc]

update:
Now the wireless works. The problem seems due to the setup on the router: router was set to WPA (I thought I have reset it to no-security)

Turn the security off on the router, and the interface wlan0 could be brought up successfully.
WPA-PSK also works now. (installed wpa_supplicant)

[ELYK6002]

I'm really sorry if this has already been discussed. Upon activation in my Network Configuration GUI, I get the Link not present. Check cable? error. I tried the solution to the first persons similar failure. Just curious if anyone had another idea as my problem persists. Any help would be great.

[imdeemvp]

[QUOTE=dododoustc]update:
Now the wireless works. The problem seems due to the setup on the router: router was set to WPA (I thought I have reset it to no-security)

Turn the security off on the router, and the interface wlan0 could be brought up successfully.
WPA-PSK also works now. (installed wpa_supplicant)[/QUOTE]
I have same laptop but no integrated wi-fi and sad for me the pmcia is not linux compatible for what I heard and no card will work. I no idea why...... :(

So I will wait for a usb wi-fi device I ordered to see if that will work.....

[melon]

This helped me, was very easy just using yum to install ndiswrapper off of livna, and then doing the post-configuration commands you listed.

[taboy]

your problem is not due to the kernel

you must be root if you want to process modprobe
if you are not root you must use /usr/sbin/ndiswrapper if you are root type only ndiswrapper

[taboy]

[QUOTE=zenora]I am having some serious trouble with ndiswrapper and modprobe on Fedora Core4. I installed ndiswrapper1.2 using yum-extend.
[COLOR=Navy]
# ndiswrapper -l
bash: ndiswrapper: command not found[/COLOR]

Figured that one...
[COLOR=Navy]/usr/sbin/ndiswrapper -l
Installed ndis drivers:
mn720-ankh driver present, hardware present[/COLOR]

Then it was...
[COLOR=Navy]# modprobe ndiswrapper
bash: modprobe: command not found
# /sbin/modprobe ndiswrapper
FATAL: Module ndiswrapper not found.[/COLOR]

Somewhere it said it is looking for the .ko file. That's in
/lib/modules/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4/misc/ndiswrapper.ko

[COLOR=Red]Oh wait... I am using Kernel 2.6.12.1390_FC4. Is that why?[/COLOR]

But, this went through fine.
[COLOR=Navy]# /usr/sbin/ndiswrapper -l
Installed ndis drivers:
mn720-ankh driver present, hardware present[/COLOR]

Does anyone know what's going on with "modprobe ndsiwrapper" command?

From Desktop>>System Setting>>Network menus I have the Network Configuration window [screen!] and I have in Tab:Hardware wlan0 with status configured. I did try to setup from there but there's more errors.

1. I guess I need to get "modprobe ndiswrapper" working. Could anyone please tell me what to do?
2. Is it a kernel issue?[/QUOTE]
your problem is not due to the kernel

you must be root if you want to process modprobe
if you are not root you must use /usr/sbin/ndiswrapper if you are root type only ndiswrapper

[emanresu]

Darkmage, thank you for your wonderful instructions. After spending 2 or 3 days (I lost count) trying to get a Belkin F5D7000 to work with FC4 I came across your post. It worked beautifully. Thanks again!

[imdeemvp]

Well it does work but my keyboard behaves very weird....if I type something it will rety the same letter about 10-15 times. Example: ttttthhhhhhhhhhhiissssssssssssss I DONT KNOW WHY!

I am using the netwear m111v1 usb wifi device the is listed in ndiswrapper..

[bodiby]

I have a fresh install of FC4. I installed the development tools and installed the kernel source files as per Redhat (http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/relea...rata/#sn-kernel).

The ndiswrapper prereqs say make sure the link is present in modules directory. There was I link, but it was bad, so I deleted it. The directory in the ndiswrapper instructions didn't match, so i guessed where it was looking.ln -s /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.11/linux-2.6.11 /lib/modules/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4/buildNow, when I attempt to make, I get

[root@localhost ndiswrapper-1.2]# make
make -C driver install
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/mike/ndiswrapper-1.2/driver'
[COLOR=Red]Can't find kernel sources in /lib/modules/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4/build;
give the path to kernel sources with KSRC=<path> argument to make[/COLOR]
make[1]: *** [prereq_check] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/mike/ndiswrapper-1.2/driver'
make: *** [install] Error 2

I know someone else had this issue, but he was using an earlier FC4 kernel. His solution was to downgrade to FC3.

[knavely]

Hi I have an HP ze2000z with amd 64
this has a broadcom wireless card which apparantly works quite well with the 32 bit bcmwl5 drivers.

using ndiswrapper 1.2
when i do ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf i get device present, drivers present
but then modprob ndiswrapper gives me tons of errors because its the 32 bit driver..

So i tried using the netbc564 drivers, but when i do ndiswrapper -i netbc564.inf
I only get driver present...not hardware present.

any ideas??

thanks for your time

[emanresu]

knavely, have you tried going to the manufacturer's website to look for newer drivers?

Hi I have an HP ze2000z with amd 64 this has a broadcom wireless card which apparantly works quite well with the 32 bit bcmwl5 drivers.

using ndiswrapper 1.2 when i do ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf i get device present, drivers present but then modprob ndiswrapper gives me tons of errors because its the 32 bit driver..

So i tried using the netbc564 drivers, but when i do ndiswrapper -i netbc564.inf I only get driver present...not hardware present.

any ideas??

[knavely]

yes I went to the broadcom webset. But they were the same drivers as the
ones I mentioned. the netbc564...

[karab]

hi

i installed my wifi card but i am getting this message at dmesg
[root@localhost ck]# dmesg |grep wlan
wlan0: ndiswrapper ethernet device 00:11:d8:62:28:06 using driver mrv8knt, configuration file 11AB:1FA7.5.conf
wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP, WPA with TKIP, WPA with AES/CCMP
ndiswrapper (wrapper_worker_proc:1095): wlan0 is being reset
ndiswrapper (wrapper_worker_proc:1095): wlan0 is being reset
ndiswrapper (wrapper_worker_proc:1095): wlan0 is being reset
ndiswrapper (wrapper_worker_proc:1095): wlan0 is being reset
ndiswrapper (wrapper_worker_proc:1095): wlan0 is being reset
ndiswrapper (wrapper_worker_proc:1095): wlan0 is being reset
ndiswrapper (wrapper_worker_proc:1095): wlan0 is being reset
ndiswrapper (wrapper_worker_proc:1095): wlan0 is being reset
ndiswrapper (wrapper_worker_proc:1095): wlan0 is being reset
ndiswrapper (wrapper_worker_proc:1095): wlan0 is being reset
ndiswrapper (wrapper_worker_proc:1095): wlan0 is being reset
ndiswrapper (wrapper_worker_proc:1095): wlan0 is being reset
ndiswrapper (wrapper_worker_proc:1095): wlan0 is being reset


what does it mean??
thx

[bodiby]

hello there

[Darkmage]

[QUOTE=bodiby]I have a fresh install of FC4. I installed the development tools and installed the kernel source files as per Redhat (http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/relea...rata/#sn-kernel).

The ndiswrapper prereqs say make sure the link is present in modules directory. There was I link, but it was bad, so I deleted it. The directory in the ndiswrapper instructions didn't match, so i guessed where it was looking.ln -s /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.11/linux-2.6.11 /lib/modules/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4/buildNow, when I attempt to make, I get

[root@localhost ndiswrapper-1.2]# make
make -C driver install
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/mike/ndiswrapper-1.2/driver'
[COLOR=Red]Can't find kernel sources in /lib/modules/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4/build;
give the path to kernel sources with KSRC=<path> argument to make[/COLOR]
make[1]: *** [prereq_check] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/mike/ndiswrapper-1.2/driver'
make: *** [install] Error 2

I know someone else had this issue, but he was using an earlier FC4 kernel. His solution was to downgrade to FC3.[/QUOTE]

The goal of this HOW-TO, was to provide an alternative/easy way of installing ndiswrapper, please do not follow the ndiswrapper instruction to the letter, some of their instructions does not apply to FC4.
The easiest way to solve your problem is to delete the symlink and use the livna repository.

[Darkmage]

[QUOTE=knavely]Hi I have an HP ze2000z with amd 64
this has a broadcom wireless card which apparantly works quite well with the 32 bit bcmwl5 drivers.

using ndiswrapper 1.2
when i do ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf i get device present, drivers present
but then modprob ndiswrapper gives me tons of errors because its the 32 bit driver..

So i tried using the netbc564 drivers, but when i do ndiswrapper -i netbc564.inf
I only get driver present...not hardware present.

any ideas??

thanks for your time[/QUOTE]

Can you post the errors for the 32bit driver for broadcom

[Darkmage]

[QUOTE=karab]hi

i installed my wifi card but i am getting this message at dmesg
[root@localhost ck]# dmesg |grep wlan
wlan0: ndiswrapper ethernet device 00:11:d8:62:28:06 using driver mrv8knt, configuration file 11AB:1FA7.5.conf
wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP, WPA with TKIP, WPA with AES/CCMP
ndiswrapper (wrapper_worker_proc:1095): wlan0 is being reset
ndiswrapper (wrapper_worker_proc:1095): wlan0 is being reset
ndiswrapper (wrapper_worker_proc:1095): wlan0 is being reset
ndiswrapper (wrapper_worker_proc:1095): wlan0 is being reset
ndiswrapper (wrapper_worker_proc:1095): wlan0 is being reset
ndiswrapper (wrapper_worker_proc:1095): wlan0 is being reset
ndiswrapper (wrapper_worker_proc:1095): wlan0 is being reset
ndiswrapper (wrapper_worker_proc:1095): wlan0 is being reset
ndiswrapper (wrapper_worker_proc:1095): wlan0 is being reset
ndiswrapper (wrapper_worker_proc:1095): wlan0 is being reset
ndiswrapper (wrapper_worker_proc:1095): wlan0 is being reset
ndiswrapper (wrapper_worker_proc:1095): wlan0 is being reset
ndiswrapper (wrapper_worker_proc:1095): wlan0 is being reset


what does it mean??
thx[/QUOTE]

I have no idea, I have never encountered that error message before. I will suggest you delete the folder /etc/ndiswrapper/mrv8knt and start from the process from
ndiswrapper -i xxxxxxxx.inf

[Darkmage]

[QUOTE=bodiby]I can get the wi-fi to fire up manually using:
modprobe ndiswrapper
ifconfig wlan0 up
iwconfig wlan0 mode <mode type>
iwconfig wlan0 essid <essid name>

I installed the automation RPM and put those lines into the ndiswrapper file but it fails. Not sure where to start to fix it.[/QUOTE]

Please re-read the HOW-TO and follow the instructions.
when you execute "modprobe ndiswrapper" from a terminal what is the output of
dmesg |grep ndiswrapper

[knavely]

Darkmage-
cant get on the internet with my laptop for a few days but
when i look at dmesg
there are a bunch of APIC error on CPU0: 40(40)
then it says
ndiswrapper version 1.2 loaded
ndiswrapper(check_nt_hdr:152):windows driver is not 64-bit; bad magic:010B

and then at the end it says
loadndiswrapper failed

[somberi]

knavely,
make sure that your driver is a 64bit driver. download the driver from:
http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/drivers.php

if this is the one you used. reboot your system and then check out dmesg.
i had the same problem yesterday, but when i restarted, ndiswrapper was able to load correctly. Sadly, I still havent been able to connect to the internet using wireless. i cant connect to a specific essid. goog luck!

[MoveZig]

usb 1-2: USB disconnect, address 2
usb 1-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4
ndiswrapper (ndiswrapper_load_driver:93): loadndiswrapper failed (59904); check system log for messages from 'loadndisdriver'
usb 1-2: USB disconnect, address 4
usb 1-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5
ndiswrapper (ndiswrapper_load_driver:93): loadndiswrapper failed (59904); check system log for messages from 'loadndisdriver'

i get this when i do dmesg
have a netgear wg111 (version 1) using inf file from cd
any suggestions?

[knavely]

[QUOTE=somberi]knavely,
make sure that your driver is a 64bit driver. download the driver from:
http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/drivers.php

if this is the one you used. reboot your system and then check out dmesg.
i had the same problem yesterday, but when i restarted, ndiswrapper was able to load correctly. Sadly, I still havent been able to connect to the internet using wireless. i cant connect to a specific essid. goog luck![/QUOTE]

Yes iv been trying with that driver.
I just tried the rebooting idea, but again when i try to activate it says that the device was not found. Also when i did ndiswrapper -l it just said driver present, not hardware present.

[AhrbokTrexon]

hi men, I have a strange problem with ndiswrapper...
here some information:
kernel 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4smp
ndiswrapper-1.3rc
Network controller: RaLink Ralink RT2500 802.11 Cardbus Reference Card (rev 01)

I've installerd ndiswrapper without problems, the interface is up, and ip address is assigned succesfully
output of iwconfig

Warning: Driver for device wlan0 recommend version 18 of Wireless Extension,
but has been compiled with version 17, therefore some driver features
may not be available...

wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"REDALERT" Nickname:"GANDALF"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:0F:3D:B3:C6:18
Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power:20 dBm Sensitivity=-120 dBm
RTS thr=2347 B Fragment thr=2346 B
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:95/100 Signal level:-65 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:3077 Invalid misc:2958 Missed beacon:0
output of ifconfig

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0F:66:6C:92:76
inet addr:192.168.100.2 Bcast:192.168.100.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20f:66ff:fe6c:9276/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:7935 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:8781 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:3085684 (2.9 MiB) TX bytes:1111273 (1.0 MiB)
Memory:eb004000-eb005fff

all seems to be configured, but I've a strange behaviour, because I can access the internet with applications like wget, evolution, konqueror... but I cannot get access with firefox, gaim, lynx and others
firefox is not configured to use any proxy or particular configurations, firefox is 'Directly connected to the internet'

what is the problem? :confused: :confused: :confused:

[Darkmage]

[QUOTE=AhrbokTrexon]hi men, I have a strange problem with ndiswrapper...
here some information:
kernel 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4smp
ndiswrapper-1.3rc
Network controller: RaLink Ralink RT2500 802.11 Cardbus Reference Card (rev 01)

I've installerd ndiswrapper without problems, the interface is up, and ip address is assigned succesfully
output of iwconfig

Warning: Driver for device wlan0 recommend version 18 of Wireless Extension,
but has been compiled with version 17, therefore some driver features
may not be available...

wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"REDALERT" Nickname:"GANDALF"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:0F:3D:B3:C6:18
Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power:20 dBm Sensitivity=-120 dBm
RTS thr=2347 B Fragment thr=2346 B
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:95/100 Signal level:-65 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:3077 Invalid misc:2958 Missed beacon:0
output of ifconfig

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0F:66:6C:92:76
inet addr:192.168.100.2 Bcast:192.168.100.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20f:66ff:fe6c:9276/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:7935 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:8781 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:3085684 (2.9 MiB) TX bytes:1111273 (1.0 MiB)
Memory:eb004000-eb005fff

all seems to be configured, but I've a strange behaviour, because I can access the internet with applications like wget, evolution, konqueror... but I cannot get access with firefox, gaim, lynx and others
firefox is not configured to use any proxy or particular configurations, firefox is 'Directly connected to the internet'

what is the problem? :confused: :confused: :confused:[/QUOTE]

I have no idea why firefox, gaim.lynx and other cannot access the internet, I will suggest downgrading to ndiswrapper 1.2 and see if they solves the hiccups.

[Darkmage]

[QUOTE=knavely]Hi I have an HP ze2000z with amd 64
this has a broadcom wireless card which apparantly works quite well with the 32 bit bcmwl5 drivers.

using ndiswrapper 1.2
when i do ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf i get device present, drivers present
but then modprob ndiswrapper gives me tons of errors because its the 32 bit driver..

So i tried using the netbc564 drivers, but when i do ndiswrapper -i netbc564.inf
I only get driver present...not hardware present.

any ideas??

thanks for your time[/QUOTE]

Re-try with the 32 bit drivers and post the ndiswrapper error messages and what is the exact model of your laptop

[jfalter0]

I am so incredibly frustrated with this whole ndiswrapper. I have been trying to get in going for a month and a half, makes me want to quit linux and return to the Windows XP world.

I have a Dell Inspiron 5150 laptop with a Dell TrueMobuile 1400 (I think) card using a Broadcom BCM4309 chipset. I am trying to use ndiswrapper version 1.2 and most recently 1.3rc1. The correct chipset uses bcmwl5.inf & .sys. I follow all the steps listed. Everything seems to work fine, until I try to issue the command

# modprobe ndiswrapper

to which I always get the response

FATAL: Error inserting ndiswrapper (/lib/modules/2.6.12-1.1398_FC4/misc/ndiswrapper.ko): Invalid module format

What the hell does that mean? What am I missing?

Jeff

[Darkmage]

[QUOTE=jfalter0]I am so incredibly frustrated with this whole ndiswrapper. I have been trying to get in going for a month and a half, makes me want to quit linux and return to the Windows XP world.

I have a Dell Inspiron 5150 laptop with a Dell TrueMobuile 1400 (I think) card using a Broadcom BCM4309 chipset. I am trying to use ndiswrapper version 1.2 and most recently 1.3rc1. The correct chipset uses bcmwl5.inf & .sys. I follow all the steps listed. Everything seems to work fine, until I try to issue the command

# modprobe ndiswrapper

to which I always get the response

FATAL: Error inserting ndiswrapper (/lib/modules/2.6.12-1.1398_FC4/misc/ndiswrapper.ko): Invalid module format

What the hell does that mean? What am I missing?

Jeff[/QUOTE]

did you compile ndiswrapper against your current kernel? any errors when "make install" was done on ndiswrapper folder"?

[jfalter0]

To the best of my knowledge I compiled against my current kernel. I did not see any errors when I ran make install.

Yesterday, after re-reading all the posts on this ow-to yet again, after starting over several times, I found the downloads of the kernel stuff from the livna site. When I installed these versions, I managed to get the ndiswrapper working. As a result, I now have wireless on my laptop! I still haven't got the WPA stuff working, but I am just grateful to have wireless connectivity again.

I still don't understand what went wrong before. B ut, to quote an old commercial, "The world may never know..." Thanks, Darkmage, for this HOW-TO, and for your response to my exasperated query.

Jeff

[mooneroid]

I seem to have duplicated knavely's problem. I also have an HP ze2000z. It doesn't help to ask which exact model, because I bought it customized off the HP website. The Broadcom wireless module seems to be the same on all flavors of ze2000 machines. So, when I try to modprobe ndiswrapper and then dmesg, it says 'loadndisdriver failed', and farther up the log it says the windows driver is not 64-bit. I'm posting the relevant section of dmesg. It says to check the system log for more info, but I seem to be newbie enough to not know where to look. Any logs I've checked have nothing about ndiswrapper in them. Also, I get a lot of APIC errors, just like knavely, but I've not included those in the snip because they all come before the first mention of ndiswrapper. Here's the log:

ndiswrapper version 1.2 loaded (preempt=no,smp=no)
ndiswrapper (check_nt_hdr:152): Windows driver is not 64-bit; bad magic: 010B
ndiswrapper (load_sys_files:520): unable to prepare driver 'bcmwl5a'
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000050 RIP:
<ffffffff88305d96>{:ndiswrapper:unload_ndis_driver+150}
PGD 6de067 PUD 6df067 PMD 0
Oops: 0000 [1]
CPU 0
Modules linked in: ndiswrapper(U) ntfs(U) nls_utf8 md5 ipv6 parport_pc lp parport autofs4 i2c_dev i2c_core rfcomm l2cap bluetooth sunrpc pcmcia ipt_REJECT ipt_state ip_conntrack iptable_filter ip_tables dm_mod video button battery ac ohci1394 ieee1394 yenta_socket rsrc_nonstatic pcmcia_core ohci_hcd ehci_hcd shpchp snd_atiixp snd_ac97_codec snd_seq_dummy snd_seq_oss snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq snd_seq_device snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm snd_timer snd soundcore snd_page_alloc 8139too mii joydev ext3 jbd
Pid: 3297, comm: loadndisdriver Not tainted 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff88305d96>] <ffffffff88305d96>{:ndiswrapper:unload_ndis_driver+150}
RSP: 0018:ffff810000027e48 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 0000000000000040 RBX: ffff8100006c8418 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000013 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffffc20000141000 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000003abd
R10: 0000000000000033 R11: 000000000000000a R12: ffff810003a81a00
R13: ffffc20000141048 R14: ffff8100006c8418 R15: 0000000000000001
FS: 00002aaaaaace3c0(0000) GS:ffffffff80576c00(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
CR2: 0000000000000050 CR3: 00000000006cc000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
Process loadndisdriver (pid: 3297, threadinfo ffff810000026000, task ffff81000000c070)
Stack: 00000000ffffffea ffffc20000141000 ffffc20000141000 ffffffff883071e7
ffff81000276fd40 ffff810000027eb8 ffff8100006c85b8 ffff8100034e9f80
ffff810002988ac0 ffffffff802297a2
Call Trace:<ffffffff883071e7>{:ndiswrapper:wrapper_ioctl+3159}
<ffffffff802297a2>{selinux_file_ioctl+770} <ffffffff801b99cc>{do_ioctl+76}
<ffffffff801b9c3c>{vfs_ioctl+604} <ffffffff801b9ccc>{sys_ioctl+108}
<ffffffff8010f262>{tracesys+209}

Code: 48 8b 78 10 e8 c1 96 00 00 49 8d 7c 24 38 e8 57 24 00 00 49
RIP <ffffffff88305d96>{:ndiswrapper:unload_ndis_driver+150} RSP <ffff810000027e48>
CR2: 0000000000000050
<3>Debug: sleeping function called from invalid context at include/linux/rwsem.h:43
in_atomic():0, irqs_disabled():1

Call Trace:<ffffffff8013c7a5>{profile_task_exit+21} <ffffffff8013e3b2>{do_exit+34}
<ffffffff802a6059>{do_unblank_screen+137} <ffffffff80125416>{do_page_fault+1846}
<ffffffff8013a68c>{__call_console_drivers+76} <ffffffff8013beeb>{vprintk+1323}
<ffffffff801787a5>{buffered_rmqueue+1093} <ffffffff8010fa7d>{error_exit+0}
<ffffffff88305d96>{:ndiswrapper:unload_ndis_driver+150}
<ffffffff883071e7>{:ndiswrapper:wrapper_ioctl+3159}
<ffffffff802297a2>{selinux_file_ioctl+770} <ffffffff801b99cc>{do_ioctl+76}
<ffffffff801b9c3c>{vfs_ioctl+604} <ffffffff801b9ccc>{sys_ioctl+108}
<ffffffff8010f262>{tracesys+209}
ndiswrapper (ndiswrapper_load_driver:93): loadndiswrapper failed (9); check system log for messages from 'loadndisdriver'

Any help would be much appreciated. Thank you.

[smile2gargamel]

[QUOTE=imdeemvp]Well it does work but my keyboard behaves very weird....if I type something it will rety the same letter about 10-15 times. Example: ttttthhhhhhhhhhhiissssssssssssss I DONT KNOW WHY!
[/QUOTE]

I have the same problem with a D-Link DWL-122 USB stick, ndiswrapper and fc4. Starts when I plug the usb stick in and stops when I remove it. Very strange...
Did someone already find a solution?

[fsimo]

Hi!

I'm using fc4 and dwl-g520+
all steps work fine, but after modprobe ndiswrapper compputer get blocked

some ideas?

[AhrbokTrexon]

[QUOTE=Darkmage]I have no idea why firefox, gaim.lynx and other cannot access the internet, I will suggest downgrading to ndiswrapper 1.2 and see if they solves the hiccups.[/QUOTE]

Hi Darkimage,
I've uninistalled module from the kernel and then downlograded ndiswrapper to 1.2; poblem has not been solved :( :( :(
what kind of check can I do?

[Zigzagcom]

Hi, someone please clear this up for me.

Do I need to install the kernel-version-src.rpm, or is the kernel-version-devel.rpm that currently matches my kernel-version-.rpm sufficient to install ndiswrapper?
I am using the 2.6.12-1.1447_FC4 kernel at the moment.

Thanx

[imdeemvp]

You dont need the kernel-devel AKA kernel source what you need if the kernel-module-ndiswrapper but you can also install the tarball package which is very easy too.

[mtl2002]

If you want to install a binary kernel module that someone has already compiled for you, then you don't need any source, as imdeemvp just said.

But if you want to compile the kernel module yourself, then you DO need the kernel source. That kernel source is in the kernel-devel-2.6.12_1.1447 package.

The kernel-2.6.12-1.1447 src rpm is different. It's the source that when compiled will give rise to the kernel and kernel-devel rpms. You will not need the src rpm unless you want to build your own kernel.

In brief:
1) src rpm: what you need to rebuild the kernel (e.g., if you want to make a kernel supporting a 16k stack)
2) kernel-devel rpm: what you need to build MODULES for the installed kernel (e.g., module to read ntfs partitions, modules for different devices like wireless cards, etc.)

[mattypoppins]

will the src RPM work instead of the kernel-devel rpm? it seems to have worked for me.

[mtl2002]

[QUOTE=mattypoppins]will the src RPM work instead of the kernel-devel rpm? it seems to have worked for me.[/QUOTE]

You bring up something I forgot. For the older kernels (or maybe for FC3?), the kernel source was all in the src RPM, and there was no such thing as the kernel-devel rpm. So there, the src RPM was the right one to use. But at some point, I think it was the start of the 2.6.12 kernels in FC4, they started to make the kernel-devel packages, and those were the ones that you wanted in order to build kernel modules.

[socceroos]

hello, i am having problems with installing my dwl-g520 dlink card (freezes when I try to enable the device - and sometimes the kernel will panic on boot).

I've decided (after much frustration) to try one last thing and install 2.6.12-1.1447 stack 16 kernel and I am wondering. Since there is no specific livina ndiswrapper rpm module for this specific kernel will the generic ndiswrapper module from livina for 2.6.12-1.1447 kernel work with my stack 16 kernel?

also will the 2.6.12-1.1447 kernel-devel rpm from the livina repo work with my 2.6.12-1.1447 stack 16 kernel?

[Zigzagcom]

Hi there, I finally got my wlan0 working. Thanks everybody. I've used the livna repo for the kernel-module-ndiswrapper. The driver files for my HP Compaq M2000 are bcmwl5a.inf and bcmwl5.sys.
Darkmage...could you possibly fix a part in the below instructions from your initial posting; your first sentence kinda led me to believe to skip the entire section...when in fact you mean to skip only the "make install" command

Go to the ndiswrapper folder and as root:

#[COLOR=Blue]make install --do this if you downloaded the source file or skip this if you used the livna rpm[/COLOR]
# /usr/sbin/ndiswrapper -i <your home directory>/bcmwl/bcmwl5.inf ...this command will create a folder in /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/bcmwl5.inf
# /usr/sbin/ndiswrapper -l -- make sure it says "bcmwl5 present"
#modprobe ndiswrapper
# dmesg --you will see a log about the driver been loaded if you do then
# ndiswrapper -m --create an alias in /etc/modprobe.conf

Maybe its just me, thick in the head...

[mooneroid]

Hot diggety!!! I figured it out! For all those of you with Broadcom BCM4318 chipsets please go to this link to find the correct drivers that work with Fedora x86_64:
http://www.runithard.com/HOWTO-BCOM64WIRELESS/
After you have downloaded and unpacked the correct drivers (from a file called Acer80211g.rar), use Darkmage's instructions to get things running.
My HP ze2000z (Turion-based) is now free to roam!

[EDIT: Sep 15, 2005 - I confused an underscore with a dash in the link. My apologies.]

[Zigzagcom]

BTW, for those that have a laptop with MS still installed, i.e. dual-booting possibly, the driver files for "built-in" wireless adapters are most likely right under your nose...with the OEM install. :D

[mooneroid]

Not so, in the case of 64-bit processors. MS has a compatibility layer that translates 32-bit stuff for the 64-bit processor (at least this is the case with the AMD Turion). At least on my system, the version of Windows I'm running is not true 64-bit. There's just a lot of translating and faking going on. The built-in wireless driver that comes with Windows (XP Pro, mind you, not a cut down version) is 32-bit and will not run in ndiswrapper on a 64-bit FC4 system.

[Zigzagcom]

I learn something new everyday in this forum...
Thx.

Pertaining to my Compaq M2000:
The wireles led/button flickers when there is activity, but cannot switch
the service on/off. NetworkManagerInfo works quite well.
Is there a way to create an application Icon for it on the desktop or launcher bar. Right now I can only launch it from the CLI, and when it is running in the systray, right clicking won't bring that kind of menu up?

[Darkmage]

[QUOTE=Zigzagcom]I learn something new everyday in this forum...
Thx.

Pertaining to my Compaq M2000:
The wireless led/button flickers when there is activity, but cannot switch
the service on/off. NetworkManagerInfo works quite well.
Is there a way to create an application Icon for it on the desktop or launcher bar. Right now I can only launch it from the CLI, and when it is running in the systray, right clicking won't bring that kind of menu up?[/QUOTE]

I am glad 64bit users are getting somewhere but the application I use now is call Wireless Assistant (http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=21832). Basically it detects an available wireless signal and displays the ssid. Sadly, it only works in KDE and not GNOME.

[Zigzagcom]

NetworkManagerInfo does the same thing in gnome....
http://www.redhat.com/magazine/003jan05/features/networkmanager/

This link answered a few questions.

[asmweb]

I could finally, at least I think, to make my wireless pcmcia led turn on. Let me tell smth more. I have installed FC4 on a Compaq Presario 2500 P4, my wireless pcmcia card is a Asus WL-100g with a Broadcom Chipset. I could install ndiswrapper through the first page procedure and finally I could turn the pcmcia led on. I did download the latest broadcom driver for windows because the previus driver did not work. It gave me an error "... check cable..." or something like that.
But I still can not connect to my school wireless network although on windows I can. It seems that the DHCP can not associate an IP to my wireless card. I can get the signal through kwifimanager. Any help?

[Darkmage]

[QUOTE=asmweb]I could finally, at least I think, to make my wireless pcmcia led turn on. Let me tell smth more. I have installed FC4 on a Compaq Presario 2500 P4, my wireless pcmcia card is a Asus WL-100g with a Broadcom Chipset. I could install ndiswrapper through the first page procedure and finally I could turn the pcmcia led on. I did download the latest broadcom driver for windows because the previus driver did not work. It gave me an error "... check cable..." or something like that.
But I still can not connect to my school wireless network although on windows I can. It seems that the DHCP can not associate an IP to my wireless card. I can get the signal through kwifimanager. Any help?[/QUOTE]

Post the output of /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0
Post the output of dmesg |grep ndiswrapper from a terminal

[asmweb]

IPV6INIT=no
ONBOOT=no
USERCTL=yes
PEERDNS=yes
GATEWAY=10.0.1.1
TYPE=Wireless
DEVICE=wlan0
HWADDR=00:11:d8:33:88:4b
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
DHCP_HOSTNAME=
IPADDR=10.0.1.13
DOMAIN=
ESSID=Auto
CHANNEL=1
MODE=Auto
RATE='54 Mb/s'


and for the dmesg:

ndiswrapper version 1.2 loaded (preempt=no,smp=no)

I think I might have problems with the DHCP client as well. How do I configure my DHCP client

[asmweb]

Well, I mean I have more than one wireless network that I join. How can I make DHCP work for each of them.

thanks

[Darkmage]

The output of the querry from dmesg on ndiswrapper should have given you an output like this

ndiswrapper version 1.3rc1 loaded (preempt=no,smp=no)
ndiswrapper: driver bcmwl5 (Broadcom,04/21/2005, 3.100.65.1) loaded
ndiswrapper: using irq 10

I would suggest deleting the bcmwl5 folder at /etc/ndiswrapper/ and re-do the install from the wireless nic card driver.

To detect multiple access points, I use wlassistant which can be downloaded/ installed from extra repository

[LER]

[QUOTE=Darkmage]The output of the querry from dmesg on ndiswrapper should have given you an output like this

ndiswrapper version 1.3rc1 loaded (preempt=no,smp=no)
ndiswrapper: driver bcmwl5 (Broadcom,04/21/2005, 3.100.65.1) loaded
ndiswrapper: using irq 10

I would suggest deleting the bcmwl5 folder at /etc/ndiswrapper/ and re-do the install from the wireless nic card driver.

To detect multiple access points, I use wlassistant which can be downloaded/ installed from extra repository[/QUOTE]
-Darkmage-

I noticed that you have helped others with wireless issues, I was wondering if you could help me with mine. It is safe to say that i am a newbie to Fedora and linux as a whole.

I have the DLINK DWL-G510 wireless card and I am running a new installation of FC4 from the DVD. I have downloaded a the ndiswrapper program and used the drivers that came on the cd with the wireless card.

I have follwed all the directions from the "how to ndiswrapper in fedora" write up and everything seemed to go smothly. Here is the problem though. After everything is installed and I go into the network configuration through the GUI (GNOME), it recognizes the device {ndiswrapper(wlan0)} and i configure it for my network and try to activate the device, my computer immediately tries to reboot and then is never able to load fedora. It gets to the initializing hardware, is able to do storage but then after network comes up it reboots again. I am not even able to go into interactive setup. The only way to load fedora is to remove the wireless card.

I would greatly appreciate your advice and help with this problem. I really need to get this up and running because this is my only means of access to the internet on that computer.

[shenry8N4Y]

use
NetworkManager
NetworkManagerInfo
after, ifconfig wlan0 up
You'll see a sweeping radar icon on the upper right of the gnome screen by the time.

[maturus2523]

Ok, I'm sorry, I'm new new, as in 5 mins new to linux. I have 2.6.11-1.1369 and I can't get past the the make install command. I'm getting what previous people have gotten that the link isn't set up from /usr/src, but there is nothing in that folder. So I dug a little deeper and everyone is saying I need the kernel-devel packages. What are those? Where can I get them? And how do I compile or build them? By the way, my ndiswrapper is 1.4.

[thomasdaly2005]

yum install kernel-devel
i think, something like that.

[maturus2523]

Ok, so some updates for me. First, I have no other connection so I was pretty much stuck working with this computer and a USB key. I successfully installed the drivers using 1.2 because livna.org didn't have my kernel-module. Then I started to really have problems. After my connection was working, my computer would freeze every 20 mins or so. I looked it up and it seems as if I needed the 16k version of my kernel which I downloaded and used RPM and it worked simple enough. The problem is now I think the ndiswrapper isn't working properly because the light on my WG111 won't come on and I'm having problems in the network configuration setup. Is there an easy way to upgrade this?

[shenry8N4Y]

[QUOTE=maturus2523]Ok, so some updates for me. First, I have no other connection so I was pretty much stuck working with this computer and a USB key. I successfully installed the drivers using 1.2 because livna.org didn't have my kernel-module. Then I started to really have problems. After my connection was working, my computer would freeze every 20 mins or so. I looked it up and it seems as if I needed the 16k version of my kernel which I downloaded and used RPM and it worked simple enough. The problem is now I think the ndiswrapper isn't working properly because the light on my WG111 won't come on and I'm having problems in the network configuration setup. Is there an easy way to upgrade this?[/QUOTE]

Did you try to reinstall ndiswrapper? make uninstall everything and after you've booted off the new kernel, reinstall ndiswrapper and the driver. I'm guessing you did the lspci command to find the exact model of your card to get the proper driver.

Also, what are you using to connect ? I had no luck at all with neat/internet-druid (to access it from terminal or also from "start" > internet (I think)), but NetworkManager worked good. you must ifconfig wlan0 up
NetworkManager
NetworkManagerInfo you'll see an animated icon appear by the clock/time.

You probably did a lot of that and this, but another one you'd need is:
modprobe ndiswrapper

[maturus2523]

so after reading every page and re-reading it I figured out that it's the fact I need to use the stk16 kernel for fedora core 4. They don't have the RPMs yet for it on livna. That puts me at make installing it myself. But that's when I get the error that the sources aren't in the right spot that they are looking for them. How do I get those there so I can make install ndiswrapper?

[shenry8N4Y]

My computer connects fine without a 16k stack, but I guess that depends on your card and computer.

This site (http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/wlan/full/downloads.php) has a list of rpm kernels with the 16k stack. They are said to be identical to the original kernel except with the stack size changed. You'd just have to install via the rpm then use grub to boot off the new one. That's how I know how to do it anyway. I'm realtively new to linux myself. You can read elsewhere to figure out how to boot off the new kernel, though Fedora might do it automatically, detecting a more recent install, so I'd check at boot time first.

Also, are you using NetworkManager to connect? From what I know, it really is the best way. It lists using a gui all available wireless networks.

Anyway, good luck with that.

PS. Also, like I said before, you'd probably need to reinstall the driver and ndiswrapper.

[maturus2523]

My apologies for not being more specific. I have one of the latest kernel (I think it's 2.6.13...1352?) with the stack from the site you put up. What I meant was the rpm's for the 16k stack kernel-module for ndiswrapper. I seem to be having some success with not using the rpm's and instead just doing the make distclean make make install but I'm getting a new error besides not finding the kernel source.

[root@localhost ndiswrapper-1.4]# make
make -C driver
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/ghost/Desktop/ndiswrapper-1.4/driver'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.13-1.1532_FC4.stk16smp/build SUBDIRS=/home/ghost/Desktop/ndiswrapper-1.4/driver \
DRIVER_VERSION=1.4
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.13-1.1532_FC4.stk16-smp-i686'
Makefile:485: .config: No such file or directory
Building modules, stage 2.
/usr/src/kernels/2.6.13-1.1532_FC4.stk16-smp-i686/scripts/Makefile.modpost:38: .config: No such file or directory
make[3]: *** No rule to make target `.config'. Stop.
make[2]: *** [modules] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.13-1.1532_FC4.stk16-smp-i686'
make[1]: *** [default] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/ghost/Desktop/ndiswrapper-1.4/driver'
make: *** [all] Error 2

[root@localhost ndiswrapper-1.4]# make install
make -C driver install
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/ghost/Desktop/ndiswrapper-1.4/driver'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.13-1.1532_FC4.stk16smp/build SUBDIRS=/home/ghost/Desktop/ndiswrapper-1.4/driver \
DRIVER_VERSION=1.4
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.13-1.1532_FC4.stk16-smp-i686'
Makefile:485: .config: No such file or directory
Building modules, stage 2.
/usr/src/kernels/2.6.13-1.1532_FC4.stk16-smp-i686/scripts/Makefile.modpost:38: .config: No such file or directory
make[3]: *** No rule to make target `.config'. Stop.
make[2]: *** [modules] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.13-1.1532_FC4.stk16-smp-i686'
make[1]: *** [default] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/ghost/Desktop/ndiswrapper-1.4/driver'
make: *** [install] Error 2

[shenry8N4Y]

So you installed the rpm kernel from linuxant and booted off it? Try to find the command for seeing the kernel you booted. Then, if it's the new one, try finding that directory and inspecting it. The one(s) it says it can't find. Also, I've found Ndiswrapper 1.3 works best for me. Find that one offline somewhere and try it. Do a make uninstall to remove 1.4 sompletely, and install 1.3. For some reason 1.4 won't work on my laptop.

You don't need to make distclean, i dont think. That's only, i believe, for used installs where you needed to type ./configure. thats not necessary for ndiswrapper though. just do a make install. might help; worth a try.

[maturus2523]

Yes, I'm booted into 2.6.13-1.1532 and that directory exists, i think the file that it's looking for does not though. Also, I can't find the source file anywhere except 1.4. Any clues?

[shenry8N4Y]

Not really. It seems like 1.4 worked for the 4 stk kernel, but not for the 16. The 4stk wouldd crash but the 16 wont install ndiswrapper. Is that it? 1.4 ndiswrapper didnt work for me. Try 1.3 and see what happens.

What source file can't you find? The one for 1.3? Also, did you use the NetworkManager service and NetworkManagerInfo to connect before you installed the updated kernel?

[mtl2002]

The "source" for kernel-versionx is obtained by installing the rpm: kernel-devel-versionx.

It looks like you have installed kernel-[color=red]SMP[/color]-2.6.13-1.1532_FC4.stk16, which would call for kernel-[color=red]SMP[/color]-devel-2.6.13-1.1532_FC4.stk16 to be installed to have the source. But it looks like you don't have that installed (I say that because the compiler can't find the files that would be there if it were installed). My guess is that you either don't have any kernel-devel installed, or, if you do, you installed kernel-devel-2.6.13-1.1532_FC4.stk16 instead of kernel-[color=red]smp[/color]-devel-2.6.13-1.1532_FC4.stk16

Make sure that you have either
kernel-2.6.13-1.1532_FC4.stk16 AND kernel-devel-2.6.13-1.1532_FC4.stk16
OR
kernel-smp-2.6.13-1.1532_FC4.stk16 AND kernel-smp-devel-2.6.13-1.1532_FC4.stk16

i.e., both NOT smp, or both smp.

The linuxant site has both pair types (both NOT smp, or both smp) available.

[maturus2523]

Not really. It seems like 1.4 worked for the 4 stk kernel, but not for the 16. The 4stk wouldd crash but the 16 wont install ndiswrapper. Is that it?

Yes, that's exactly what happened.

1.4 ndiswrapper didnt work for me. Try 1.3 and see what happens.

What source file can't you find? The one for 1.3?

Yes, I can't find any source files besides 1.4

Also, did you use the NetworkManager service and NetworkManagerInfo to connect before you installed the updated kernel?

I used System Tools --> Network Device Control

[maturus2523]

Just thought everyone should know...

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper-1.2.tar.gz?download

Pretty much, I changed the version and I found it, it worked for 1.4, 0.8, and 1.2, didn't try others, 1.3 did not work though.

However, this did not save me as I can still not make install due to the fact it can't find the .config file or whatever from my previous post (check the output.) Any suggestions before I go nuts and install windows?

[shenry8N4Y]

"Never give up, and never surrender."

Really? 1.3 didn't work? I do recall you said you got online before but it froze. Well, I'd try to get back to the way it was before when at least you could install ndiswrapper:

Boot off the kernel that worked, but use NetworkManager instead to connect. It's easier to setup. Here is exactly what I did and it worked without fail:

su -
cd ~/ndiswrapper
make install
ndiswrapper -i my_driver
ndiswrapper -l

output:
bcmwl5 driver present, hardware present

modprobe ndiswrapper
ifconfig wlan0 up
ndiswrapper -m
NetworkManager
NetworkManagerInfo

it should take about 10 seconds after the last command to connect. You'll see an animated icon that resembles a sweeping radar, then you'll see the signal bar like in XP.

last thoughts:

if, assuming you connect, it freezes still while you're surfing the net, then, i'd suppose, we know it's the kernel. look for other articles concerning your wireless card model (again, code: lspci) either here or here (http://www.linuxquestions.org/). See if other people experience the same problem and what they did if so, of course.

i also read something somewhere that said there were certain problems with the newest kernel (.13 i think?). im not sure if it pertained to this realm, but in case it did, maybe look for an older kernel to use. im not talking super old, but the one used before this one. im not on linux now so i cant get you the one i have. im sure after you discover one you can find an rpm, anyhow. i wont pretend i know how to compile kernel source.

also, as a last resort, try using linuxant's driver wrapper. it didn't work for me, but it may for you. plus it has a much nicer interface. it uses html. the only drawback is without the cd key they you only get like 20 mbps or something, instead of the max 54. i think there is another wrapper called madwifi or something.

see if any of that help. it took me a long while to get mine to work too, but don't give up. what finally solved my problem was updating to FC4 from the FC3 dvd a friend gave me a while ago. I was going to shoot my laptop though. I even went as far as installing mandrake and ubuntu, but i ended up back at fedora and there i stay.

i think the setup screen alone says alot. partitioniing is a very delicate process, and other distros i tried use an awkward msdos fdisk looking interface to format, partition and install. Fedora makes the process seem more like home to wnidows users.

im curious, do you have a dual boot setup?

[maturus2523]

Alright, a few things to say as usual. I did not see mtl2002's post which might have enlightened me on something. To get rid of the error of not finding the source file I followed some other instructions of taking the kernel-devel rpm and using archive manager and putting the files where ndiswrapper was looking. I'll try using the rpm how it's supposed to be used and see if that helps me.

I have tried using the other kernel and re-doing it and it still freezes, and the ndiswrapper I originally got to work was 1.2, not 1.3. I might try some of the other suggestions after I try mtl's. By the way, I do not dual boot, although there is a little something I do want to setup to dual boot, but this is not the post to discuss that. Essentially, I have a hard drive that was installed on a dual boot system of windows xp and 2003, and i just brought it over to my current setup so I'm still trying to figure out how to boot to that. I'm also working on how to install bittornado, and how to partition a blank partition into fat32 in fedora, but my internet connection remains number one on my most wanted list.