Re: reinstall ndiswrapper after a reboot
Quote:
Originally Posted by
gerdt
When I installed Gutsy on my laptop I was very glad to see that the restricted drivers handled my WLAN automatically. This meant I didn't need to do it manually using ndiswrapper. This worked fine, until ... I wanted to connect to the WLAN of my university-campus. This required WPA2 Enterprise w/ wpa_supplicant, and that didn't work with the restricted drivers from Ubuntu. So I removed the restricted drivers for my WLAN, and I installed wlan w/ ndiswrapper using this howto.
This is exactly why this thread is still alive. Even when the restricted drivers seem to "work", they almost always have problems. It's been like this for several versions now, and people keep coming back to ndiswrapper.
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But (there is always a but ... :( ), after every reboot, I have to reinstall ndiswrapper again. This is actually very annoying. even though I finally have a stable WLAN-connection at the university, and WLAN at home also works perfectly.
First, what makes you think that you have to reinstall ndiswrapper every time? What kind of errors messages are you getting?
Second, don't use ndiswrapper 1.49. Stick with 1.47 for now.
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Re: reinstall ndiswrapper after a reboot
Quote:
Originally Posted by
paperdiesel
Second, don't use ndiswrapper 1.49. Stick with 1.47 for now.
I have removed ndiswrapper 1.49 and replaced it with 1.47. I don't know whether it'll make a difference... Why should we stick with 47 and not use the newest version?
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Originally Posted by
paperdiesel
First, what makes you think that you have to reinstall ndiswrapper every time? What kind of errors messages are you getting?
Why? Because each time I reboot my laptop, WLAN is gone (see thumbnail in the attachment and ifconfig output).
(to be clear, eth1 is my wired-network-card, eth0 is my wifi-card)
Code:
$ ifconfig
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:19:B9:62:49:04
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:21
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:448 (448.0 b) TX bytes:448 (448.0 b)
And after performing my "reinstall ndiswrapper" script, WLAN comes back up:
Code:
$ cat fixwlan
sudo rmmod ndiswrapper
sudo ndiswrapper -e bcmwl5
cd /home/gerard/Drivers/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper-1.47
sudo make uninstall
sudo make uninstall
sudo make
sudo make install
cd /home/gerard/Drivers/dell_wireless_1390_wlan_minicard/R151517/DRIVER
sudo ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf
sudo ndiswrapper -l
sudo ndiswrapper -m
sudo modprobe ndiswrapper
sudo iwlist scanning
ifconfig when WLAN is back:
Code:
$ ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:19:7E:53:4B:7B
inet addr:192.168.2.245 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::219:7eff:fe53:4b7b/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1438 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1510 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:987094 (963.9 KB) TX bytes:276761 (270.2 KB)
Interrupt:18 Memory:c0200000-c0204000
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:19:B9:62:49:04
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:21
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:448 (448.0 b) TX bytes:448 (448.0 b)
I don't know where to look for error messages. Perhaps someone can indicate which log-files I should check?
PS: I am using 1.47 now, and it doesn't change my situation
Re: HOWTO: Dell Inspiron E1505 Wireless (Broadcom 1390 WLAN)
gert, have you tried the following from the instructions in the first post? i think i've read (in another thread here) that in gutsy, "modprobe ndiswrapper" does not load it into the modules folder...you have to manually place it there:
Code:
sudo echo ndiswrapper >> /etc/modules
if you get a "permission denied" message, then try:
Code:
sudo -s
echo ndiswrapper >> /etc/modules
exit
then reboot....see if it works.
Re: HOWTO: Dell Inspiron E1505 Wireless (Broadcom 1390 WLAN)
Quote:
Originally Posted by
fooman
gert, have you tried the following from the instructions in the first post? i think i've read (in another thread here) that in gutsy, "modprobe ndiswrapper" does not load it into the modules folder...you have to manually place it there:
Code:
sudo echo ndiswrapper >> /etc/modules
if you get a "permission denied" message, then try:
Code:
sudo -s
echo ndiswrapper >> /etc/modules
exit
then reboot....see if it works.
Exactly. Out of your "reinstall script" the only thing you actually need to run to be working again is:
Code:
sudo modprobe ndiswrapper
Re: HOWTO: Dell Inspiron E1505 Wireless (Broadcom 1390 WLAN)
I am sorry I didn't comment on those things in my first post.
/etc/modules does contain the line ndiswrapper. I executed sudo echo ndiswrapper >> /etc/modules the first time I followed this howto, so /etc/modules was and still is correct. (see below)
About sudo modprobe ndiswrapper. Whenever WLAN stops working after a reboot, I always first check lsmod, to see if ndiswrapper is still in there... And yes, every time it is there. So sudo modprobe ndiswrapper is unfortunately not the answer to my problem ...
Code:
$ lsmod |grep ndiswrapper
ndiswrapper 188700 0
usbcore 138632 5 ndiswrapper,usbhid,ehci_hcd,ohci_hcd
But now I found out/realized another thing:
Assuming that I've WLAN working during a certain session. When I reboot graphically, i.e. pressing the "green running man" you can see in my previous attached thumbnail ... ;), WLAN stops working after rebooting. But, if instead of rebooting graphically, I reboot through the commandline (sudo reboot), WLAN works fine after the reboot.
The weirdest thing is this:
WLAN is working
I reboot graphically, WLAN doesn't work.
I don't do anything at all, and now I reboot through commandline (sudo reboot)
Now WLAN works fine...
I don't understand... What's the difference between a graphical reboot and a sudo reboot ??? And why does WLAN starts working again after I do a sudo reboot through commandline?
Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that a graphical shutdown/reboot saves your session-data. And perhaps it is saving it wrongly in my case, and therefore it messes up my WLAN. But what I don't understand is why after sudo reboot it starts working again...
I hope I'm clear explaining all this. In any case, thanks in advance for your help!
Gerard
Code:
$ cat /etc/modules
# /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time.
#
# This file contains the names of kernel modules that should be loaded
# at boot time, one per line. Lines beginning with "#" are ignored.
fuse
lp
ndiswrapper
Code:
$ cat /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
# This file lists those modules which we don't want to be loaded by
# alias expansion, usually so some other driver will be loaded for the
# device instead.
# evbug is a debug tool that should be loaded explicitly
blacklist evbug
# these drivers are very simple, the HID drivers are usually preferred
blacklist usbmouse
blacklist usbkbd
# replaced by e100
blacklist eepro100
# replaced by tulip
blacklist de4x5
# causes no end of confusion by creating unexpected network interfaces
blacklist eth1394
# snd_intel8x0m can interfere with snd_intel8x0, doesn't seem to support much
# hardware on its own (Ubuntu bug #2011, #6810)
blacklist snd_intel8x0m
# causes failure to suspend on HP compaq nc6000 (Ubuntu: #10306)
blacklist i2c_i801
# WLAN: we gebruiken ndiswrapper
blacklist bcm43xx
Re: HOWTO: Dell Inspiron E1505 Wireless (Broadcom 1390 WLAN)
So if you boot normally, you wireless card is not recognised at all (the WiFi light doesn't turn on)? But if you run something like "sudo shutdown -r now" (or "sudo reboot") then it works when you come back up? Very strange. Can you boot normally and run then post the output from that command (in code tags please) up here for us to look at. Secondly if you run the following command you should see the corresponding output:
Code:
jw5801@laptop:~$ lsmod | grep ndiswrapper
ndiswrapper 243488 0
If the module is being added on bootup you should see something similar, if it isn't then this command shouldn't return anything, in which case running "sudo modprobe ndiswrapper" should bring your WiFi up.
Re: HOWTO: Dell Inspiron E1505 Wireless (Broadcom 1390 WLAN)
Quote:
Originally Posted by
gerdt
I hope I'm clear explaining all this. In any case, thanks in advance for your help!
Gerard
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that I think you've probably tried to install / use some other wireless method before you got to this how-to. There are a couple of strange things happening here:
First, it looks like you have two wired NICs -- is that true? Both eth1 and eth0 are reporting "Ethernet". I suspect that you don't actually have two wired NICs, but that you've made some other attempt at getting your wireless installed.
Are you only using network-manager to manage your Wi-Fi connections? Are you sure that other programs such as wifi-radar aren't also trying to use the wireless NIC's resources?
Take a look at the programs that are stored as part of your default session. If there's anything in there about wireless or networks, let us know.
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Re: HOWTO: Dell Inspiron E1505 Wireless (Broadcom 1390 WLAN)
I also realized that when booting, the Wifi-led burns, even though WLAN doesn't work at that moment. During my reinstall script, it turns off at a certain moment, and then comes back on.
Quote:
Originally Posted by
paperdiesel
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that I think you've probably tried to install / use some other wireless method before you got to this how-to.
No, I haven't. I cleanly installed Gutsy, using the restricted drivers. Last week I installed ndiswrapper according to this howto and removed the restricted drivers. I do have been working with wpa_supplicant and dhclient before trying this howto.
Quote:
Originally Posted by
paperdiesel
First, it looks like you have two wired NICs -- is that true? Both eth1 and eth0 are reporting "Ethernet". I suspect that you don't actually have two wired NICs, but that you've made some other attempt at getting your wireless installed.
I don't have to wired NICs. I don't know why they both report Ethernet. What should the wifi-card be reporting? Last week I followed some instructions from this thread in an attempt to use vpn. It worked. The only thing I had to do was change the names of eth0 and eth1 in this file:
Code:
/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistant-net.rules.d
Apparantly network-manager-pptp only works with eth0. So I had to change my eth1 into eth0 in order to get vpn working. So now, eth0 is my wifi, and eth1 is my wired NIC.
Code:
gerard@INSPIRON:/etc/udev/rules.d$ cat 70-persistent-net.rules
# This file maintains persistent names for network interfaces.
# See udev(7) for syntax.
#
# Entries are automatically added by the 75-persistent-net-generator.rules
# file; however you are also free to add your own entries.
# PCI device 0x14e4:0x170c (b44) ###KABEL###
SUBSYSTEM=="net", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTRS{address}=="00:19:b9:62:49:04", NAME="eth1"
# PCI device 0x14e4:0x4311 (bcm43xx) ###WIFI###
SUBSYSTEM=="net", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTRS{address}=="00:19:7e:53:4b:7b", NAME="eth0"
Quote:
Originally Posted by
paperdiesel
Are you only using network-manager to manage your Wi-Fi connections? Are you sure that other programs such as wifi-radar aren't also trying to use the wireless NIC's resources?
Yes, only network manager. Never tried nor installed any other network manager.
Quote:
Originally Posted by
paperdiesel
Take a look at the programs that are stored as part of your default session. If there's anything in there about wireless or networks, let us know.
In the attached thumbnails I made a screen shot of my Session configuration. The only thing (slightly) related to WLAN besides NetworkManager is BlueTooth manager. I don't have bluetooth in my laptop, I only have a bluetooth-usb-stick.
lsmod at the beginning of a normal boot, WLAN wasn't working at the time:
Code:
$ lsmod|grep ndiswrapper
ndiswrapper 188700 0
usbcore 138632 5 ndiswrapper,usbhid,ehci_hcd,ohci_hcd
Quote:
Originally Posted by
jw5801
Can you boot normally and run dmesg
Code:
$ dmesg
[ 0.000000] Linux version 2.6.22-14-generic (buildd@palmer) (gcc version 4.1.3 20070929 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.2-16ubuntu2)) #1 SMP Sun Oct 14 23:05:12 GMT 2007 (Ubuntu 2.6.22-14.46-generic)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009dc00 (usable)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000000009dc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000000ce000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000037e70000 (usable)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000037e70000 - 0000000037e80000 (ACPI data)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000037e80000 - 0000000037f00000 (ACPI NVS)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000037f00000 - 0000000040000000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000e0000000 - 00000000f0000000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec10000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fff80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] 0MB HIGHMEM available.
[ 0.000000] 894MB LOWMEM available.
[ 0.000000] found SMP MP-table at 000f8530
[ 0.000000] Entering add_active_range(0, 0, 228976) 0 entries of 256 used
[ 0.000000] Zone PFN ranges:
[ 0.000000] DMA 0 -> 4096
[ 0.000000] Normal 4096 -> 228976
[ 0.000000] HighMem 228976 -> 228976
[ 0.000000] early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges
[ 0.000000] 0: 0 -> 228976
[ 0.000000] On node 0 totalpages: 228976
[ 0.000000] DMA zone: 32 pages used for memmap
[ 0.000000] DMA zone: 0 pages reserved
[ 0.000000] DMA zone: 4064 pages, LIFO batch:0
[ 0.000000] Normal zone: 1756 pages used for memmap
[ 0.000000] Normal zone: 223124 pages, LIFO batch:31
[ 0.000000] HighMem zone: 0 pages used for memmap
[ 0.000000] DMI present.
[ 0.000000] ACPI: RSDP signature @ 0xC00F8500 checksum 0
[ 0.000000] ACPI: RSDP 000F8500, 0014 (r0 PTLTD )
[ 0.000000] ACPI: RSDT 37E795B4, 003C (r1 DELL M08 6040000 LTP 0)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: FACP 37E7FBD2, 0074 (r1 ATI Bowfin 6040000 ATI F4240)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: DSDT 37E795F0, 65E2 (r1 ATI SB600 6040000 MSFT 3000000)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: FACS 37E90FC0, 0040
[ 0.000000] ACPI: TCPA 37E7FC46, 0032 (r2 AMD 6040000 PTEC 0)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: SSDT 37E7FC78, 0182 (r1 PTLTD POWERNOW 6040000 LTP 1)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: APIC 37E7FDFA, 0054 (r1 PTLTD APIC 6040000 LTP 0)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: MCFG 37E7FE4E, 003C (r1 PTLTD MCFG 6040000 LTP 0)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: SLIC 37E7FE8A, 0176 (r1 DELL M08 6040000 LTP 0)
[ 0.000000] ATI board detected. Disabling timer routing over 8254.
[ 0.000000] ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x8008
[ 0.000000] ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
[ 0.000000] ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
[ 0.000000] Processor #0 15:8 APIC version 16
[ 0.000000] ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x01] enabled)
[ 0.000000] Processor #1 15:8 APIC version 16
[ 0.000000] ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x00] high edge lint[0x1])
[ 0.000000] ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x01] high edge lint[0x1])
[ 0.000000] ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x02] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0])
[ 0.000000] IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 2, version 33, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23
[ 0.000000] ACPI: IRQ9 used by override.
[ 0.000000] Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 1 I/O APICs
[ 0.000000] Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information
[ 0.000000] Allocating PCI resources starting at 50000000 (gap: 40000000:a0000000)
[ 0.000000] Built 1 zonelists. Total pages: 227188
[ 0.000000] Kernel command line: root=UUID=a8a82347-aebb-4166-8134-2c056cfb64cb ro quiet splash
[ 0.000000] mapped APIC to ffffd000 (fee00000)
[ 0.000000] mapped IOAPIC to ffffc000 (fec00000)
[ 0.000000] Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
[ 0.000000] Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
[ 0.000000] Initializing CPU#0
[ 0.000000] PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 16384 bytes)
[ 0.000000] Detected 1596.092 MHz processor.
[ 0.000000] Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
[ 0.000000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
[ 0.000000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
[ 0.000000] Memory: 896132k/915904k available (2015k kernel code, 19204k reserved, 916k data, 364k init, 0k highmem)
[ 0.000000] virtual kernel memory layout:
[ 0.000000] fixmap : 0xfff4d000 - 0xfffff000 ( 712 kB)
[ 0.000000] pkmap : 0xff800000 - 0xffc00000 (4096 kB)
[ 0.000000] vmalloc : 0xf8800000 - 0xff7fe000 ( 111 MB)
[ 0.000000] lowmem : 0xc0000000 - 0xf7e70000 ( 894 MB)
[ 0.000000] .init : 0xc03e3000 - 0xc043e000 ( 364 kB)
[ 0.000000] .data : 0xc02f7d26 - 0xc03dce84 ( 916 kB)
[ 0.000000] .text : 0xc0100000 - 0xc02f7d26 (2015 kB)
[ 0.000000] Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
[ 0.000000] SLUB: Genslabs=22, HWalign=64, Order=0-1, MinObjects=4, CPUs=2, Nodes=1
[ 0.084000] Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 3195.13 BogoMIPS (lpj=6390273)
[ 0.084000] Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
[ 0.084000] SELinux: Disabled at boot.
[ 0.084000] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
[ 0.084000] CPU: After generic identify, caps: 178bfbff ebd3fbff 00000000 00000000 00002001 00000000 0000001f
[ 0.084000] CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
[ 0.084000] CPU: L2 Cache: 512K (64 bytes/line)
[ 0.084000] CPU 0(2) -> Core 0
[ 0.084000] CPU: After all inits, caps: 178bfbff ebd3fbff 00000000 00000410 00002001 00000000 0000001f
[ 0.084000] Compat vDSO mapped to ffffe000.
[ 0.084000] Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
[ 0.100000] SMP alternatives: switching to UP code
[ 0.100000] Early unpacking initramfs... done
[ 0.468000] ACPI: Core revision 20070126
[ 0.468000] ACPI: Looking for DSDT in initramfs... error, file /DSDT.aml not found.
[ 0.476000] CPU0: AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-52 stepping 02
[ 0.476000] SMP alternatives: switching to SMP code
[ 0.476000] Booting processor 1/1 eip 3000
[ 0.488000] Initializing CPU#1
[ 0.568000] Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 3192.27 BogoMIPS (lpj=6384559)
[ 0.568000] CPU: After generic identify, caps: 178bfbff ebd3fbff 00000000 00000000 00002001 00000000 0000001f
[ 0.568000] CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
[ 0.568000] CPU: L2 Cache: 512K (64 bytes/line)
[ 0.568000] CPU 1(2) -> Core 1
[ 0.568000] CPU: After all inits, caps: 178bfbff ebd3fbff 00000000 00000410 00002001 00000000 0000001f
[ 0.568000] CPU1: AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-52 stepping 02
[ 0.568000] Total of 2 processors activated (6387.41 BogoMIPS).
[ 0.568000] ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
[ 0.568000] ..TIMER: vector=0x31 apic1=0 pin1=0 apic2=-1 pin2=-1
[ 0.568000] ..MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC
[ 0.568000] ...trying to set up timer (IRQ0) through the 8259A ... failed.
[ 0.568000] ...trying to set up timer as Virtual Wire IRQ... works.
[ 0.612000] Brought up 2 CPUs
[ 0.684000] migration_cost=4000
[ 0.684000] Booting paravirtualized kernel on bare hardware
[ 0.684000] Time: 12:56:43 Date: 10/16/107
[ 0.684000] NET: Registered protocol family 16
[ 0.684000] EISA bus registered
[ 0.684000] ACPI: bus type pci registered
[ 0.700000] PCI: BIOS BUG #81[49435000] found
[ 0.700000] PCI: Using configuration type 1
[ 0.700000] Setting up standard PCI resources
[ 0.700000] ACPI: EC: Look up EC in DSDT
[ 0.700000] ACPI: EC: GPE=0x14, ports=0x66, 0x62
[ 0.708000] ACPI: System BIOS is requesting _OSI(Linux)
[ 0.708000] ACPI: Please test with "acpi_osi=!Linux"
[ 0.708000] Please send dmidecode to linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
[ 0.708000] ACPI: Interpreter enabled
[ 0.708000] ACPI: (supports S0 S3 S4 S5)
[ 0.708000] ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing
[ 0.716000] ACPI: EC: GPE=0x14, ports=0x66, 0x62
[ 0.716000] ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
[ 0.716000] PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
[ 0.716000] PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:14.4
[ 0.716000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
[ 0.716000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PB5_._PRT]
[ 0.716000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PB6_._PRT]
[ 0.716000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.P2P_._PRT]
[ 0.716000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.AGP_._PRT]
[ 0.720000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 10 11) *0, disabled.
[ 0.720000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 10 11) *0, disabled.
[ 0.720000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 10 11) *0, disabled.
[ 0.720000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 10 11) *0, disabled.
[ 0.720000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 10 11) *0, disabled.
[ 0.720000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 10 11) *0, disabled.
[ 0.720000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 10 11) *0, disabled.
[ 0.720000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 10 11) *0, disabled.
[ 0.720000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKU] (IRQs 3 4 5 7) *0, disabled.
[ 0.720000] Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
[ 0.720000] pnp: PnP ACPI init
[ 0.720000] ACPI: bus type pnp registered
[ 0.724000] pnp: PnP ACPI: found 10 devices
[ 0.724000] ACPI: ACPI bus type pnp unregistered
[ 0.724000] PnPBIOS: Disabled by ACPI PNP
[ 0.724000] PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
[ 0.724000] PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq". If it helps, post a report
[ 0.724000] PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 7 of bridge 0000:00:05.0
[ 0.724000] PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 8 of bridge 0000:00:05.0
[ 0.724000] NET: Registered protocol family 8
[ 0.724000] NET: Registered protocol family 20
[ 0.724000] pnp: 00:01: iomem range 0xe0000000-0xefffffff could not be reserved
[ 0.724000] pnp: 00:01: iomem range 0xfec00000-0xfec00fff could not be reserved
[ 0.724000] pnp: 00:01: iomem range 0xfee00000-0xfee00fff could not be reserved
[ 0.724000] pnp: 00:08: ioport range 0x1080-0x1080 has been reserved
[ 0.724000] pnp: 00:08: ioport range 0x220-0x22f has been reserved
[ 0.724000] pnp: 00:09: iomem range 0xe0000-0xfffff could not be reserved
[ 0.724000] pnp: 00:09: iomem range 0xfff00000-0xffffffff could not be reserved
[ 0.724000] pnp: 00:09: iomem range 0xc0004800-0xc0004bff has been reserved
[ 0.724000] pnp: 00:09: iomem range 0xfed00000-0xfed003ff has been reserved
[ 0.756000] PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:01.0
[ 0.756000] IO window: 9000-9fff
[ 0.756000] MEM window: c0100000-c01fffff
[ 0.756000] PREFETCH window: c8000000-cfffffff
[ 0.756000] PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:05.0
[ 0.756000] IO window: disabled.
[ 0.756000] MEM window: disabled.
[ 0.756000] PREFETCH window: disabled.
[ 0.756000] PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:06.0
[ 0.756000] IO window: disabled.
[ 0.756000] MEM window: c0200000-c02fffff
[ 0.756000] PREFETCH window: disabled.
[ 0.756000] PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:14.4
[ 0.756000] IO window: disabled.
[ 0.756000] MEM window: c0300000-c03fffff
[ 0.756000] PREFETCH window: disabled.
[ 0.756000] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:05.0 to 64
[ 0.756000] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:06.0 to 64
[ 0.756000] NET: Registered protocol family 2
[ 0.760000] Time: acpi_pm clocksource has been installed.
[ 0.804000] IP route cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
[ 0.804000] TCP established hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1572864 bytes)
[ 0.804000] TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
[ 0.804000] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536)
[ 0.804000] TCP reno registered
[ 0.820000] checking if image is initramfs... it is
[ 1.548000] Freeing initrd memory: 7322k freed
[ 1.548000] audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
[ 1.548000] audit(1195217802.260:1): initialized
[ 1.548000] VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
[ 1.548000] Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 1.548000] io scheduler noop registered
[ 1.548000] io scheduler anticipatory registered
[ 1.548000] io scheduler deadline registered
[ 1.548000] io scheduler cfq registered (default)
[ 1.548000] PCI: MSI quirk detected. MSI deactivated.
[ 1.548000] Boot video device is 0000:01:05.0
[ 1.548000] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:05.0 to 64
[ 1.552000] assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
[ 1.552000] Allocate Port Service[0000:00:05.0:pcie00]
[ 1.552000] Allocate Port Service[0000:00:05.0:pcie02]
[ 1.552000] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:06.0 to 64
[ 1.552000] assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
[ 1.552000] Allocate Port Service[0000:00:06.0:pcie00]
[ 1.552000] Allocate Port Service[0000:00:06.0:pcie02]
[ 1.552000] isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
[ 1.904000] isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
[ 1.936000] Real Time Clock Driver v1.12ac
[ 1.936000] Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
[ 1.936000] RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 65536K size 1024 blocksize
[ 1.936000] input: Macintosh mouse button emulation as /class/input/input0
[ 1.936000] PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:KBC0,PNP0f13:MSE0] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
[ 1.940000] serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
[ 1.940000] serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
[ 1.940000] mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
[ 1.940000] EISA: Probing bus 0 at eisa.0
[ 1.940000] Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 1
[ 1.940000] Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 8
[ 1.940000] EISA: Detected 0 cards.
[ 1.940000] TCP cubic registered
[ 1.940000] NET: Registered protocol family 1
[ 1.940000] Using IPI No-Shortcut mode
[ 1.940000] Magic number: 15:395:936
[ 1.940000] Freeing unused kernel memory: 364k freed
[ 1.976000] input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input1
[ 3.164000] AppArmor: AppArmor initialized<5>audit(1195217803.760:2): type=1505 info="AppArmor initialized" pid=1223
[ 3.172000] fuse init (API version 7.8)
[ 3.180000] Failure registering capabilities with primary security module.
[ 3.276000] ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports 8 throttling states)
[ 3.284000] ACPI: Thermal Zone [THRM] (53 C)
[ 3.792000] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
[ 3.792000] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
[ 3.792000] usbcore: registered new device driver usb
[ 3.792000] ohci_hcd: 2006 August 04 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver
[ 3.792000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:13.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
[ 3.792000] ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.0: OHCI Host Controller
[ 3.792000] ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
[ 3.792000] ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.0: irq 16, io mem 0xc0005000
[ 3.840000] Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
[ 3.840000] ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
[ 3.852000] usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 3.852000] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 3.852000] hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[ 3.956000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:13.1[B] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
[ 3.956000] ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.1: OHCI Host Controller
[ 3.956000] ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
[ 3.956000] ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.1: irq 17, io mem 0xc0006000
[ 3.996000] SCSI subsystem initialized
[ 4.012000] usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 4.012000] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 4.012000] hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[ 4.016000] libata version 2.21 loaded.
[ 4.116000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:13.2[C] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
[ 4.116000] ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.2: OHCI Host Controller
[ 4.116000] ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
[ 4.116000] ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.2: irq 18, io mem 0xc0007000
[ 4.172000] usb usb3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 4.172000] hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 4.172000] hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[ 4.276000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:13.3[B] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
[ 4.276000] ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.3: OHCI Host Controller
[ 4.276000] ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
[ 4.276000] ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.3: irq 17, io mem 0xc0008000
[ 4.332000] usb usb4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 4.332000] hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 4.332000] hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[ 4.436000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:13.4[C] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
[ 4.436000] ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.4: OHCI Host Controller
[ 4.436000] ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.4: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 5
[ 4.436000] ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.4: irq 18, io mem 0xc0009000
[ 4.492000] usb usb5: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 4.492000] hub 5-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 4.492000] hub 5-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[ 4.596000] SB600_PATA: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:14.1
[ 4.596000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:14.1[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
[ 4.596000] SB600_PATA: chipset revision 0
[ 4.596000] SB600_PATA: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
[ 4.596000] ide0: BM-DMA at 0x8420-0x8427, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
[ 4.596000] Probing IDE interface ide0...
[ 4.748000] usb 4-1: new low speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 2
[ 4.968000] usb 4-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 5.340000] hda: Optiarc DVD+/-RW AD-5540A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
[ 6.012000] hda: selected mode 0x42
[ 6.012000] ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
[ 6.012000] ahci 0000:00:12.0: version 2.2
[ 6.012000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:12.0[A] -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
[ 6.012000] ahci 0000:00:12.0: controller can't do 64bit DMA, forcing 32bit
[ 7.016000] ahci 0000:00:12.0: AHCI 0001.0100 32 slots 4 ports 3 Gbps 0xf impl SATA mode
[ 7.016000] ahci 0000:00:12.0: flags: ncq ilck led clo pmp pio
[ 7.016000] scsi0 : ahci
[ 7.016000] scsi1 : ahci
[ 7.016000] scsi2 : ahci
[ 7.016000] scsi3 : ahci
[ 7.016000] ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xf887e100 ctl 0x00000000 bmdma 0x00000000 irq 19
[ 7.016000] ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xf887e180 ctl 0x00000000 bmdma 0x00000000 irq 19
[ 7.016000] ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xf887e200 ctl 0x00000000 bmdma 0x00000000 irq 19
[ 7.016000] ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xf887e280 ctl 0x00000000 bmdma 0x00000000 irq 19
[ 7.500000] ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
[ 7.876000] ata1.00: ATA-7: TOSHIBA MK1234GSX, AH001D, max UDMA/100
[ 7.876000] ata1.00: 234441648 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32)
[ 7.876000] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
[ 8.188000] ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
[ 8.500000] ata3: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
[ 8.812000] ata4: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
[ 8.820000] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA TOSHIBA MK1234GS AH00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[ 8.820000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:13.5[D] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 20
[ 8.820000] ehci_hcd 0000:00:13.5: EHCI Host Controller
[ 8.820000] ehci_hcd 0000:00:13.5: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 6
[ 8.820000] ehci_hcd 0000:00:13.5: debug port 1
[ 8.820000] ehci_hcd 0000:00:13.5: irq 20, io mem 0xc0004400
[ 8.820000] ehci_hcd 0000:00:13.5: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004
[ 8.820000] usb usb6: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 8.820000] hub 6-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 8.820000] hub 6-0:1.0: 10 ports detected
[ 8.820000] usb 4-1: USB disconnect, address 2
[ 8.832000] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 234441648 512-byte hardware sectors (120034 MB)
[ 8.832000] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[ 8.832000] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[ 8.832000] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 8.832000] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 234441648 512-byte hardware sectors (120034 MB)
[ 8.832000] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[ 8.832000] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[ 8.832000] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 8.832000] sda: sda1 sda2 sda3
[ 8.912000] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
[ 8.916000] sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
[ 8.924000] b44.c:v1.01 (Jun 16, 2006)
[ 8.924000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:08:00.0[A] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 21
[ 8.924000] eth0: Broadcom 4400 10/100BaseT Ethernet 00:19:b9:62:49:04
[ 9.012000] hda: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
[ 9.012000] Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
[ 9.136000] usbcore: registered new interface driver hiddev
[ 9.136000] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
[ 9.136000] /build/buildd/linux-source-2.6.22-2.6.22/drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
[ 9.248000] Attempting manual resume
[ 9.248000] swsusp: Resume From Partition 8:2
[ 9.248000] PM: Checking swsusp image.
[ 9.252000] PM: Resume from disk failed.
[ 9.304000] kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
[ 9.304000] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
[ 9.516000] usb 4-1: new low speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 3
[ 9.732000] usb 4-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 9.744000] input: HID 1241:1166 as /class/input/input2
[ 9.744000] input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [HID 1241:1166] on usb-0000:00:13.3-1
[ 17.952000] pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
[ 17.976000] shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4
[ 18.068000] Linux agpgart interface v0.102 (c) Dave Jones
[ 18.596000] piix4_smbus 0000:00:14.0: Found 0000:00:14.0 device
[ 18.716000] input: PC Speaker as /class/input/input3
[ 18.724000] sdhci: Secure Digital Host Controller Interface driver
[ 18.724000] sdhci: Copyright(c) Pierre Ossman
[ 18.724000] sdhci: SDHCI controller found at 0000:08:01.0 [1180:0822] (rev 19)
[ 18.724000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:08:01.0[B] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 22
[ 18.724000] mmc0: SDHCI at 0xc0302000 irq 22 DMA
[ 19.064000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:14.2[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
[ 19.312000] Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 6.3, id: 0x180b1, caps: 0xa04713/0x200000
[ 19.348000] input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /class/input/input4
[ 20.532000] lp: driver loaded but no devices found
[ 20.632000] ndiswrapper version 1.47 loaded (smp=yes)
[ 20.736000] ndiswrapper: driver bcmwl5 (Broadcom,10/12/2006, 4.100.15.5) loaded
[ 20.736000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:05:00.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
[ 20.740000] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:05:00.0 to 64
[ 20.740000] ndiswrapper (NdisWriteErrorLogEntry:192): log: C000138B, count: 1, return_address: f8b54937
[ 20.740000] ndiswrapper (NdisWriteErrorLogEntry:195): code: 0x9
[ 20.740000] ndiswrapper (mp_init:216): couldn't initialize device: C0000001
[ 20.740000] ndiswrapper (pnp_start_device:439): Windows driver couldn't initialize the device (C0000001)
[ 20.740000] ndiswrapper (mp_halt:258): device dfade500 is not initialized - not halting
[ 20.740000] ndiswrapper: device eth%d removed
[ 20.740000] ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:05:00.0 disabled
[ 20.740000] ndiswrapper: probe of 0000:05:00.0 failed with error -22
[ 20.744000] usbcore: registered new interface driver ndiswrapper
[ 20.808000] Adding 2000084k swap on /dev/sda2. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:2000084k
[ 21.172000] EXT3 FS on sda1, internal journal
[ 21.872000] kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
[ 21.876000] EXT3 FS on sda3, internal journal
[ 21.876000] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
[ 23.260000] ACPI: Video Device [VGA] (multi-head: yes rom: no post: no)
[ 23.328000] ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT1] (battery present)
[ 23.376000] ACPI: AC Adapter [ACAD] (on-line)
[ 23.416000] No dock devices found.
[ 23.652000] input: Power Button (FF) as /class/input/input5
[ 23.652000] ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
[ 23.652000] input: Power Button (CM) as /class/input/input6
[ 23.652000] ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PWRB]
[ 23.652000] input: Sleep Button (CM) as /class/input/input7
[ 23.652000] ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SLPB]
[ 23.652000] input: Lid Switch as /class/input/input8
[ 23.652000] ACPI: Lid Switch [LID]
[ 24.084000] powernow-k8: Found 2 AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-52 processors (version 2.00.00)
[ 24.144000] powernow-k8: 0 : fid 0x8 (1600 MHz), vid 0x13
[ 24.144000] powernow-k8: 1 : fid 0x0 (800 MHz), vid 0x1e
[ 26.412000] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[ 26.412000] lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
[ 26.412000] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready
[ 26.728000] ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
[ 27.100000] audit(1195217829.399:3): type=1503 operation="inode_permission" requested_mask="a" denied_mask="a" name="/dev/tty" pid=5088 profile="/usr/sbin/cupsd"
[ 27.200000] apm: BIOS not found.
[ 27.856000] Failure registering capabilities with primary security module.
[ 28.244000] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.11
[ 28.244000] NET: Registered protocol family 31
[ 28.244000] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
[ 28.244000] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[ 28.268000] Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.8
[ 28.268000] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[ 28.436000] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
[ 28.436000] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
[ 28.436000] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.8
[ 40.256000] Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = -238399393 ns)
[ 40.596000] [fglrx] Maximum main memory to use for locked dma buffers: 802 MBytes.
[ 40.596000] [fglrx] module loaded - fglrx 8.37.6 [May 25 2007] on minor 0
[ 40.656000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:05.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
[ 42.552000] [fglrx] total GART = 130023424
[ 42.552000] [fglrx] free GART = 114032640
[ 42.552000] [fglrx] max single GART = 114032640
[ 42.552000] [fglrx] total LFB = 134217728
[ 42.552000] [fglrx] free LFB = 119828480
[ 42.552000] [fglrx] max single LFB = 119828480
[ 42.552000] [fglrx] total Inv = 0
[ 42.552000] [fglrx] free Inv = 0
[ 42.552000] [fglrx] max single Inv = 0
[ 42.552000] [fglrx] total TIM = 0
[ 50.416000] hda-intel: Invalid position buffer, using LPIB read method instead.
I marked some lines in bold in this dmesg. It shows that ndiswrapper is not able to initialize eth0, but I don't understand why. Perhaps someone else does understand what dmesg is saying?
And I still don't understand why after a sudo reboot/sudo shutdown -r now, ndiswrapper can initialize eth0, but after a normal reboot is cannot...
dmesg also says:
Code:
ndiswrapper: driver bcmwl5 (Broadcom,10/12/2006, 4.100.15.5) loaded
Why? I've put the bcm driver in a blacklist, haven't I ?
Code:
$ cat /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
...
...
blacklist bcm43xx
What am I doing wrong ?!?!?! :)
Grtz, Gerard
Re: HOWTO: Dell Inspiron E1505 Wireless (Broadcom 1390 WLAN)
Quote:
Originally Posted by
gerdt
Last week I followed some instructions from
this thread in an attempt to use vpn. It worked. The only thing I had to do was change the names of eth0 and eth1 in this file:
Code:
/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistant-net.rules.d
Apparantly network-manager-pptp only works with eth0. So I had to change my eth1 into eth0 in order to get vpn working. So now, eth0 is my wifi, and eth1 is my wired NIC.
Bingo. To my knowledge, ndiswrapper tries to set wlan0 (the normal device name for wireless) to eth1. If eth1 is already taken by some other resource, you'll have problems. This would also explain why wireless works again after your run your reinstall script. Think of it as a battle for eth1 assignment: eth1 gets assigned to wifi first, then your other script sets eth0 (ethernet) to eth1, which drops your wifi. Then you run your reinstall script, and ndiswrapper probably detects that eth1 is in use, and assigns eth0 instead. Wifi and VPN are both competing for eth1, and since the VPN script is run after the initial wifi config, VPN wins and wifi loses.
Quote:
dmesg also says:
Code:
ndiswrapper: driver bcmwl5 (Broadcom,10/12/2006, 4.100.15.5) loaded
Why? I've put the bcm driver in a blacklist, haven't I ?
No, that's a good message. Ndiswrapper is successfully loading the windows drivers. All good.
Re: HOWTO: Dell Inspiron E1505 Wireless (Broadcom 1390 WLAN)
Quote:
Originally Posted by
gerdt
dmesg also says:
Code:
ndiswrapper: driver bcmwl5 (Broadcom,10/12/2006, 4.100.15.5) loaded
Why? I've put the bcm driver in a blacklist, haven't I ?
Code:
$ cat /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
...
...
blacklist bcm43xx
What am I doing wrong ?!?!?! :)
Nothing, bcmwl5 is a different driver from bcm43xx. bcm43xx is the restricted driver that Ubuntu will keep trying to install over ndiswrapper and bcmwl5 unless you specifically blacklist it. bcmwl5 is the official Broadcom Windows driver that ndiswrapper lets you use in Linux.
