On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 16:00 -0400, James Pifer wrote: > I've tried getting my builtin wireless card in my laptop working before > and was close, but could never get it working. I would REALLY like to > use my laptop without being tied to my desk. Previously I could load the > drivers, using ndiswrapper, and get all the way up to loading it, but I > could never get an ipaddress. So I figured I would try again but this > time remove wep and see if can connect. > > lspci shows me this: > > 02:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g > Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03) > > When I try to modprobe ndiswrapper the machine locks up hard. After a > reboot I see this in /var/log/messages: > > Oct 27 15:09:45 kernel: ndiswrapper version 1.4rc4 loaded > (preempt=no,smp=yes) > Oct 27 15:09:45 kernel: ndiswrapper: driver bcmwl5 (Broadcom,10/20/2004, > 3.70.22.0) loaded > Oct 27 15:09:45 kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:02.0[A] -> GSI 18 > (level, low) -> IRQ 193 > Oct 27 15:09:45 kernel: ndiswrapper: using irq 193 > > I also tried reinstalling ndiswrapper but still get the same thing. If > it's an IRQ problem, any suggestions on how to handle it? > > Any other suggestions? > It may be related to the 4k stack problem. I had that on my laptop and used the kernel with 16k stack from http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/wlan/full/downloads-fc4-i686.php to solve it. > Thanks, > James > >
