updated kernel - wireless not working - Page 5

Conscript89 · #61 2007-11-05, 11:27 AM CST

There's new kernel in updates repo, let's give it a shot

I have the same problem as everyone else and have Broadcom Dell Wireless 1390...
Unfortunatelly, i have updated to 2.6.23 just day before wifi was fixed at school

Conscript89 · #62 2007-11-05, 01:33 PM CST

The new kernel changes nothing :/
I've tried to remove b43 modules, all of them, except ssb which is used by b44, which is strange, i've had to remove it everytime in past to get ndiswrapper working, so this may be the problem. I've blacklisted them too and tried to reboot and load ndiswrapper, wlan0 is not listed again.

Code:

$ lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
appletalk              35361  2
ipx                    29157  2
p8023                   5569  1 ipx
ndiswrapper           169500  0
i915                   24129  2
drm                    68181  3 i915
ipt_MASQUERADE          6593  1
iptable_nat             9541  1
nf_nat                 18541  2 ipt_MASQUERADE,iptable_nat
bridge                 46681  0
autofs4                20421  2
nf_conntrack_ftp       10849  0
nf_conntrack_netbios_ns     6337  0
nf_conntrack_ipv4      11717  14 iptable_nat
xt_state                6081  12
nf_conntrack           51977  7 ipt_MASQUERADE,iptable_nat,nf_nat,nf_conntrack_ftp,nf_conntrack_netbios_ns,nf_conntrack_ipv4,xt_state
nfnetlink               8281  3 nf_nat,nf_conntrack_ipv4,nf_conntrack
xt_tcpudp               6849  17
ipt_REJECT              7489  4
iptable_filter          6337  1
ip_tables              14213  2 iptable_nat,iptable_filter
x_tables               14149  6 ipt_MASQUERADE,iptable_nat,xt_state,xt_tcpudp,ipt_REJECT,ip_tables
rfcomm                 36825  2
l2cap                  25537  9 rfcomm
sunrpc                140637  1
ipv6                  245861  38
dm_mirror              21569  0
dm_multipath           18121  0
dm_mod                 46337  2 dm_mirror,dm_multipath
sbs                    20041  0
snd_hda_intel         257501  6
snd_seq_dummy           6725  0
snd_seq_oss            29889  0
snd_seq_midi_event      9665  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                44721  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device          9933  3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
parport_pc             26981  0
b44                    25809  0
firewire_ohci          17729  0
snd_pcm_oss            38337  0
parport                32393  1 parport_pc
firewire_core          36097  1 firewire_ohci
snd_mixer_oss          16577  2 snd_pcm_oss
mii                     8257  1 b44
serio_raw               8901  0
crc_itu_t               5953  1 firewire_core
snd_pcm                64069  3 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer              20421  3 snd_seq,snd_pcm
battery                13897  0
video                  19793  0
iTCO_wdt               13797  0
iTCO_vendor_support     7109  1 iTCO_wdt
snd                    43205  16 snd_hda_intel,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
hci_usb                16477  2
output                  6849  1 video
button                 10193  0
soundcore               9505  2 snd
bluetooth              49189  7 rfcomm,l2cap,hci_usb
sr_mod                 17381  0
ac                      8005  0
ssb                    29765  1 b44
snd_page_alloc         11209  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
cdrom                  33761  1 sr_mod
joydev                 11521  0
sg                     31965  0
ata_piix               16709  0
ahci                   22469  5
libata                 99505  2 ata_piix,ahci
sd_mod                 27201  6
scsi_mod              119501  4 sr_mod,sg,libata,sd_mod
ext3                  110665  4
jbd                    52329  1 ext3
mbcache                10177  1 ext3
ehci_hcd               31565  0
ohci_hcd               21445  0
uhci_hcd               23633  0

Code:

$ sudo /usr/sbin/ndiswrapper -l
bcmwl5 : driver installed
        device (14E4:4311) present (alternate driver: ssb)

*edit: forgot to post dmesg:

Code:

$ dmesg | tail
Bridge firewalling registered
virbr0: Dropping NETIF_F_UFO since no NETIF_F_HW_CSUM feature.
virbr0: no IPv6 routers present
[drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
[drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20060119 on minor 0
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
ndiswrapper version 1.48 loaded (smp=yes, preempt=no)
usbcore: registered new interface driver ndiswrapper
NET: Registered protocol family 4
NET: Registered protocol family 5

Conscript89 · #63 2007-11-06, 01:27 AM CST

Just got ndiswrapper working. You need to unload ssb (and b44 too), so you lose ethernet. Just before unloading, stop NetworkManager, or it will allways load b44 and prevent ndiswrapper to be loaded correctly.

Conscript89 · #64 2007-11-06, 08:07 AM CST

Ok, looks like I've solved the problem.
You have to add these lines to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

Code:

blacklist b43
blacklist mac80211
blacklist rc80211_simple
blacklist cfg80211

And then add these lines to /etc/rc.local

Code:

service NetworkManager stop
service NetworkManagerDispatcher stop
rmmod b44
rmmod ssb
modprobe ndiswrapper
modprobe b44
modprobe mii
service NetworkManager start
service NetworkManagerDispatcher start

The wlan interface should be now visible and wired connection works too.

*edit: forgot to add b44 and mii modules