Ndiswrapper on 64 bit Fedora 7

I thought I'd give Ndiswrapper a try again, it hasn't worked for me since
FC5 but ever the glutton for punishment I decided to try again.

I'm using 64 bit Fedora 7 on a Compaq R3000z with a POS Broadcom Wireless
chip.

I've done the following,

Install 64 bit ndiswrapper from Livna
Added the following to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

blacklist bcm43xx
blacklist bcm43xx_mac80211

Downloaded the 64 bit Broadcom drivers from

http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/drivers.php

Installed the driver,
ndiswrapper -i netbc564.inf

ndiswrapper -l
netbc564 : driver installed
device (14E4:4320) present (alternate driver: ssb)

Added the following to /etc/modprobe.conf

alias wlan0 ndiswrapper

I set it up using system-config-networking

When I do an ifup I get

ifup wlan0
SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory
Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) :
SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument.
SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory
Failed to bring up wlan0.

If I try a iwlist scanning I get

lo Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.

wmaster0 Interface doesn't support scanning.

wlan0 Interface doesn't support scanning : Network is down

vmnet8 Interface doesn't support scanning.

vmnet1 Interface doesn't support scanning.

Has anyone gotten the Broadcom chip working with 64 bit Fedora 7? How
about with 32 bit Fedora 7?

On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 21:17:31 +0000, General Schvantzkoph wrote:

> I thought I'd give Ndiswrapper a try again, it hasn't worked for me since
> FC5 but ever the glutton for punishment I decided to try again.
>
> I'm using 64 bit Fedora 7 on a Compaq R3000z with a POS Broadcom Wireless
> chip.
>
> I've done the following,
>
> Install 64 bit ndiswrapper from Livna
> Added the following to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
>
> blacklist bcm43xx
> blacklist bcm43xx_mac80211
>
> Downloaded the 64 bit Broadcom drivers from
>
> http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/drivers.php
>
> Installed the driver,
> ndiswrapper -i netbc564.inf
>
> ndiswrapper -l
> netbc564 : driver installed
> device (14E4:4320) present (alternate driver: ssb)
>
> Added the following to /etc/modprobe.conf
>
> alias wlan0 ndiswrapper
>
> I set it up using system-config-networking
>
> When I do an ifup I get
>
> ifup wlan0
> SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory
> Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) :
> SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument.
> SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory
> Failed to bring up wlan0.
>
> If I try a iwlist scanning I get
>
> lo Interface doesn't support scanning.
>
> eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.
>
> wmaster0 Interface doesn't support scanning.
>
> wlan0 Interface doesn't support scanning : Network is down
>
> vmnet8 Interface doesn't support scanning.
>
> vmnet1 Interface doesn't support scanning.
>
> Has anyone gotten the Broadcom chip working with 64 bit Fedora 7? How
> about with 32 bit Fedora 7?
I have it working flawlessly on HP/Compaq F572US, under Gentoo. Had to
rmmod the bcm43xx driver then move it (renamed) to keep it from mucking up
the works. Then used the bcmwl5 driver from XP using ndiswrapper ......
flawless ever since (even using wpa_supplicant and WPA encryption). HTH

General Schvantzkoph wrote:
> I thought I'd give Ndiswrapper a try again, it hasn't worked for me since
> FC5 but ever the glutton for punishment I decided to try again.
>
> I'm using 64 bit Fedora 7 on a Compaq R3000z with a POS Broadcom Wireless
> chip.
>
> I've done the following,
>
> Install 64 bit ndiswrapper from Livna
> Added the following to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
>
> blacklist bcm43xx
> blacklist bcm43xx_mac80211
>
> Downloaded the 64 bit Broadcom drivers from
>
> http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/drivers.php
>
> Installed the driver,
> ndiswrapper -i netbc564.inf
>
> ndiswrapper -l
> netbc564 : driver installed
> device (14E4:4320) present (alternate driver: ssb)
>
> Added the following to /etc/modprobe.conf
>
> alias wlan0 ndiswrapper
>
> I set it up using system-config-networking
>
> When I do an ifup I get
>
> ifup wlan0
> SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory
> Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) :
> SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument.
> SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory
> Failed to bring up wlan0.
>
> If I try a iwlist scanning I get
>
> lo Interface doesn't support scanning.
>
> eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.
>
> wmaster0 Interface doesn't support scanning.
>
> wlan0 Interface doesn't support scanning : Network is down
>
> vmnet8 Interface doesn't support scanning.
>
> vmnet1 Interface doesn't support scanning.
>
> Has anyone gotten the Broadcom chip working with 64 bit Fedora 7? How
> about with 32 bit Fedora 7?
>

The native bcm43xx driver works better on my openSUSE 10.2/3 x86_64 system than the Windows XP
system does. From what I read, the rawhide test kernels for F7 also work very well.

Larry

On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 23:19:59 +0000, Larry Finger wrote:

> General Schvantzkoph wrote:
>> I thought I'd give Ndiswrapper a try again, it hasn't worked for me
>> since FC5 but ever the glutton for punishment I decided to try again.
>>
>> I'm using 64 bit Fedora 7 on a Compaq R3000z with a POS Broadcom
>> Wireless chip.
>>
>> I've done the following,
>>
>> Install 64 bit ndiswrapper from Livna Added the following to
>> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
>>
>> blacklist bcm43xx
>> blacklist bcm43xx_mac80211
>>
>> Downloaded the 64 bit Broadcom drivers from
>>
>> http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/drivers.php
>>
>> Installed the driver,
>> ndiswrapper -i netbc564.inf
>>
>> ndiswrapper -l
>> netbc564 : driver installed
>> device (14E4:4320) present (alternate driver: ssb)
>>
>> Added the following to /etc/modprobe.conf
>>
>> alias wlan0 ndiswrapper
>>
>> I set it up using system-config-networking
>>
>> When I do an ifup I get
>>
>> ifup wlan0
>> SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory Error for wireless request "Set
>> Mode" (8B06) :
>> SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument.
>> SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory Failed to bring up wlan0.
>>
>> If I try a iwlist scanning I get
>>
>> lo Interface doesn't support scanning.
>>
>> eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.
>>
>> wmaster0 Interface doesn't support scanning.
>>
>> wlan0 Interface doesn't support scanning : Network is down
>>
>> vmnet8 Interface doesn't support scanning.
>>
>> vmnet1 Interface doesn't support scanning.
>>
>> Has anyone gotten the Broadcom chip working with 64 bit Fedora 7? How
>> about with 32 bit Fedora 7?
>>
>>
> The native bcm43xx driver works better on my openSUSE 10.2/3 x86_64
> system than the Windows XP system does. From what I read, the rawhide
> test kernels for F7 also work very well.
>
> Larry

I've been trying it on 32 F7, I can't get it to work there either. I also
tried bcm43xx, that doesn't work either.

General Schvantzkoph wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 23:19:59 +0000, Larry Finger wrote:
>
>> General Schvantzkoph wrote:
>>> I thought I'd give Ndiswrapper a try again, it hasn't worked for me
>>> since FC5 but ever the glutton for punishment I decided to try again.
>>>
>>> I'm using 64 bit Fedora 7 on a Compaq R3000z with a POS Broadcom
>>> Wireless chip.
>>>
>>> I've done the following,
>>>
>>> Install 64 bit ndiswrapper from Livna Added the following to
>>> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
>>>
>>> blacklist bcm43xx
>>> blacklist bcm43xx_mac80211
>>>
>>> Downloaded the 64 bit Broadcom drivers from
>>>
>>> http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/drivers.php
>>>
>>> Installed the driver,
>>> ndiswrapper -i netbc564.inf
>>>
>>> ndiswrapper -l
>>> netbc564 : driver installed
>>> device (14E4:4320) present (alternate driver: ssb)
>>>
>>> Added the following to /etc/modprobe.conf
>>>
>>> alias wlan0 ndiswrapper
>>>
>>> I set it up using system-config-networking
>>>
>>> When I do an ifup I get
>>>
>>> ifup wlan0
>>> SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory Error for wireless request "Set
>>> Mode" (8B06) :
>>> SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument.
>>> SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory Failed to bring up wlan0.
>>>
>>> If I try a iwlist scanning I get
>>>
>>> lo Interface doesn't support scanning.
>>>
>>> eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.
>>>
>>> wmaster0 Interface doesn't support scanning.
>>>
>>> wlan0 Interface doesn't support scanning : Network is down
>>>
>>> vmnet8 Interface doesn't support scanning.
>>>
>>> vmnet1 Interface doesn't support scanning.
>>>
>>> Has anyone gotten the Broadcom chip working with 64 bit Fedora 7? How
>>> about with 32 bit Fedora 7?
>>>
>>>
>> The native bcm43xx driver works better on my openSUSE 10.2/3 x86_64
>> system than the Windows XP system does. From what I read, the rawhide
>> test kernels for F7 also work very well.
>>
>> Larry
>
> I've been trying it on 32 F7, I can't get it to work there either. I also
> tried bcm43xx, that doesn't work either.

Care to post the output of 'dmesg | grep bcm' when trying bcm43xx?

Larry

On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 01:34:30 +0000, Larry Finger wrote:

> General Schvantzkoph wrote:
>> On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 23:19:59 +0000, Larry Finger wrote:
>>
>>> General Schvantzkoph wrote:
>>>> I thought I'd give Ndiswrapper a try again, it hasn't worked for me
>>>> since FC5 but ever the glutton for punishment I decided to try again.
>>>>
>>>> I'm using 64 bit Fedora 7 on a Compaq R3000z with a POS Broadcom
>>>> Wireless chip.
>>>>
>>>> I've done the following,
>>>>
>>>> Install 64 bit ndiswrapper from Livna Added the following to
>>>> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
>>>>
>>>> blacklist bcm43xx
>>>> blacklist bcm43xx_mac80211
>>>>
>>>> Downloaded the 64 bit Broadcom drivers from
>>>>
>>>> http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/drivers.php
>>>>
>>>> Installed the driver,
>>>> ndiswrapper -i netbc564.inf
>>>>
>>>> ndiswrapper -l
>>>> netbc564 : driver installed
>>>> device (14E4:4320) present (alternate driver: ssb)
>>>>
>>>> Added the following to /etc/modprobe.conf
>>>>
>>>> alias wlan0 ndiswrapper
>>>>
>>>> I set it up using system-config-networking
>>>>
>>>> When I do an ifup I get
>>>>
>>>> ifup wlan0
>>>> SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory Error for wireless request
>>>> "Set Mode" (8B06) :
>>>> SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument.
>>>> SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory Failed to bring up wlan0.
>>>>
>>>> If I try a iwlist scanning I get
>>>>
>>>> lo Interface doesn't support scanning.
>>>>
>>>> eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.
>>>>
>>>> wmaster0 Interface doesn't support scanning.
>>>>
>>>> wlan0 Interface doesn't support scanning : Network is down
>>>>
>>>> vmnet8 Interface doesn't support scanning.
>>>>
>>>> vmnet1 Interface doesn't support scanning.
>>>>
>>>> Has anyone gotten the Broadcom chip working with 64 bit Fedora 7? How
>>>> about with 32 bit Fedora 7?
>>>>
>>>>
>>> The native bcm43xx driver works better on my openSUSE 10.2/3 x86_64
>>> system than the Windows XP system does. From what I read, the rawhide
>>> test kernels for F7 also work very well.
>>>
>>> Larry
>>
>> I've been trying it on 32 F7, I can't get it to work there either. I
>> also tried bcm43xx, that doesn't work either.
>
> Care to post the output of 'dmesg | grep bcm' when trying bcm43xx?
>
> Larry

I've removed Ndiswrapper and deleted the blacklist entries for bcm43xx.

dmesg | grep bcm
bcm43xx driver

I added an entry to modprobe.conf,

alias wlan0 bcm43xx

And I used fwcutter on BCMWL564.SYS to put the firmware into

/lib64/firmware

It doesn't work,

ifup wlan0
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Operation not supported
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Operation not supported
Failed to bring up wlan0.

General Schvantzkoph wrote:
>
> I've removed Ndiswrapper and deleted the blacklist entries for bcm43xx.
>
> dmesg | grep bcm
> bcm43xx driver
>
> I added an entry to modprobe.conf,
>
> alias wlan0 bcm43xx
>
> And I used fwcutter on BCMWL564.SYS to put the firmware into
>
> /lib64/firmware
>
> It doesn't work,
>
> ifup wlan0
> SIOCSIFFLAGS: Operation not supported
> SIOCSIFFLAGS: Operation not supported
> Failed to bring up wlan0.

The SIOCSIFFLAGS messages are probably not important.

Is this a prebuilt kernel from a distro, or did you build it yourself. If the latter, please turn on
debugging for bcm43xx.

When you issue an 'lspci -v' command, what does the entry for the wireless LAN device show? What is
the output from an iwconfig command?

Larry

On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 04:26:33 +0000, Larry Finger wrote:

> General Schvantzkoph wrote:
>>
>> I've removed Ndiswrapper and deleted the blacklist entries for bcm43xx.
>>
>> dmesg | grep bcm
>> bcm43xx driver
>>
>> I added an entry to modprobe.conf,
>>
>> alias wlan0 bcm43xx
>>
>> And I used fwcutter on BCMWL564.SYS to put the firmware into
>>
>> /lib64/firmware
>>
>> It doesn't work,
>>
>> ifup wlan0
>> SIOCSIFFLAGS: Operation not supported SIOCSIFFLAGS: Operation not
>> supported Failed to bring up wlan0.
>
> The SIOCSIFFLAGS messages are probably not important.
>
> Is this a prebuilt kernel from a distro, or did you build it yourself.
> If the latter, please turn on debugging for bcm43xx.
>
> When you issue an 'lspci -v' command, what does the entry for the
> wireless LAN device show? What is the output from an iwconfig command?
>
> Larry

This is a Fedora kernel, 2.6.22.5-76.fc7

02:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g
Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company NX9500 Built-in Wireless
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 64, IRQ 17
Memory at e0104000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]

iwconfig -v wlan0
iwconfig Wireless-Tools version 28
Compatible with Wireless Extension v11 to v20.

Kernel Currently compiled with Wireless Extension v22.

wlan0 Recommend Wireless Extension v21 or later,
Currently compiled with Wireless Extension v22.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:""
Mode:Ad-Hoc Frequency:2.462 GHz Cell: Not-Associated
Retry min limit:7 RTS thrff Fragment thr=2346 B
Encryption keyff
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

I had the same problem due to a new driver "ssb" that needs to be
added to the blacklist so it doesn't conflict with ndiswrapper:

With a reboot -- add to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist then reboot

Without a reboot --
add "blacklist ssb" to the bottom of /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
# modprobe -r ssb
# modprobe -r ndiswrapper
# modprobe ndiswrapper
# iwconfig
(you will see output for your wireless card interface-- probably
wlan0)
# iwlist wlan0 scan
(should show wireless access points available)

On Mon, 01 Oct 2007 09:04:49 -0700, davejones70 wrote:

> modprobe -r ssb

I'll give that a try.

Josh