NDISwrapper Yes, lspci No, iwconfig No

[davedave]

Hi all,

I'm having a little bit of problems getting WiFi to work on my new ASUS M51VA-AS045G. I know it works, as it is fine with the Vista installation.

Anyways, on to the troubleshooting.

The ASUS WiFi driver was downloaded from here.

I have installed NDISwrapper 1.53 from source
ndiswrapper -v

utils version: '1.9', utils version needed by module: '1.9'
module details:
filename: /lib/modules/2.6.24-19-generic/misc/ndiswrapper.ko
version: 1.53
vermagic: 2.6.24-19-generic SMP mod_unload 586

The driver/device seems to be installed OK
ndiswrapper -l

netw5v32 : driver installed
device (8086:4232) present

I have created a script to disable modules SSB and B43
cat /etc/init.d/wirelessfix.sh

#!/bin/bash

modprobe -r b44
modprobe -r b43
modprobe -r ssb
modprobe -r ndiswrapper
modprobe ndiswrapper
modprobe b44

Now for the bits that don't really make sense or line up with anybody else's experience.

ndiswrapper -m seems to have written the following file
cat /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper

alias wlan0 ndiswrapper

iwconfig does not detect a wireless device
iwconfig

lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

lspci does not list the wireless card correctly
lspci

06:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 4232

Does anyone know why NDISwrapper thinks that the driver is installed and the device is present, yet lspci does not recognise the card and iwconfig does not recognise a wireless device?

Any help is greatly appreciated!

Cheers,
Dave

[cdtech]

I added these to my /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist file:

# everything to do with wireless
blacklist b44
blacklist ipv6
blacklist b43
blacklist b43legacy
blacklist ssb
blacklist agpgart

I tried to use the wirelessfix.sh script and found that even after a reboot I had to re run the script for it to work. Now, since I've added the modules to the blacklist, after a reboot my ndiswrapper works.

This may not work for you but it's worth a try......

[davedave]

I tried those blacklistings and also stopped the wirelessfix.sh script from running.

Even after modprobing the ndiswrapper, I still get the same problems

davidw@Laphroaig:~$ lsmod | grep b4
davidw@Laphroaig:~$ lsmod | grep ssb
davidw@Laphroaig:~$ lsmod | grep ndiswrapper
ndiswrapper 193436 0
usbcore 146028 8 ndiswrapper,hci_usb,uvcvideo,usb_storage,libusual, ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd
davidw@Laphroaig:~$ cat /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper
alias wlan0 ndiswrapper
davidw@Laphroaig:~$ lspci | grep Network
06:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 4232
davidw@Laphroaig:~$ ndiswrapper -l
netw5v32 : driver installed
device (8086:4232) present
davidw@Laphroaig:~$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

Thanks for the help anyway!

[superprash2003]

i remember having a similar issue once.. ndiswrapper said it was present but it wasnt quite there.. but a reboot worked for me

[davedave]

Thanks, though I have already tried that windows approach

[cdtech]

What do you get with the output of:
lshw -C network

[davedave]

What do you get with the output of:
lshw -C network

sudo lshw -C network

*-network UNCLAIMED
description: Network controller
product: Intel Corporation
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:06:00.0
version: 00
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:07:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 02
serial: 00:22:15:2a:b4:1b
size: 100MB/s
capacity: 1GB/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.2LK duplex=full ip=10.5.1.44 latency=0 link=yes module=r8169 multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=100MB/s

[cdtech]

Your "logical name: eth0" is incorrect. I'm looking through my notes......

[davedave]

That's on the LAN NIC though

[cdtech]

Ok, go to /etc/udev/rules.d and edit the file "70-persistent-net.rules":
sudo gedit /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules

Look for the line:

# PCI device 0x14e4:0x4311 (ndiswrapper)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTRS{address}=="00:1a:73:b5:7e:d1", ATTRS{type
}=="1", NAME="wlan0"

Yours will probably have the eth0 listed, just change that to wlan0