[elrepo] Problem in install kmod-ndiswrapper by elrepo repository
Wagner Silva Vieira
wagnervieira.net at gmail.com
Fri Oct 23 19:17:08 EDT 2009
Steve and Guys,
I didn't use the new driver "R174291.EXE" because I got to detect my
wireless card apllying "ifconfig wlan0" and "iwconfig" commands after boot.
If anything more help me after that, I'll use the new driver that you said
with ndiswrapper and see what will happen.
So ... after a thousand things that I did ... I'm not have my wireless card
ok!
Must I do anything else?
Anybody knows exactly what's happen?
This was my troubleshooting until now to solve my problem with my Wireless
Card.
1 - Install ndiswrapper for my correct type of kernel:
[root at musashi ~]#
[root at musashi ~]#
[root at musashi ~]# rpm -qa |grep ndiswrapper
kmod-ndiswrapper-PAE-1.54-4.el5.elrepo.i686
[root at musashi ~]#
2 - Load de module ndiswrapper after installation (modprobe ndiswrapper):
[root at musashi ~]#
[root at musashi ~]# lsmod |grep ndiswrapper
ndiswrapper 169744 0
[root at musashi ~]#
3 - Configuring ndiswrapper to use the drive (ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf)
[root at musashi ~]#
[root at musashi ~]# ndiswrapper -l
bcmwl5 : driver installed
device (14E4:4328) present
[root at musashi ~]#
[root at musashi ~]#
[root at musashi ~]#
4 - Boot the system to verify with the hardware is detected using dmesg
comand to do it:
[root at musashi ~]# dmesg |grep wlan0
wlan0: ethernet device 00:1f:3a:43:f7:b8 using NDIS driver: bcmwl5, version:
0x4640f05, NDIS version: 0x501, vendor: 'NDIS Network Adapter',
14E4:4328.5.conf
wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP; TKIP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK;
AES/CCMP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[root at musashi ~]#
[root at musashi ~]#
5 - Verifying that the system has the hardware recognized:
[root at musashi ~]# lspci -v
0b:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4328 802.11a/b/g/n (rev
03)
Subsystem: Dell Wireless 1500 Draft 802.11n WLAN Mini-card
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 177
Memory at fe7fc000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Memory at f0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=1M]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [58] Vendor Specific Information
Capabilities: [e8] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+ Queue=0/0
Enable-
Capabilities: [d0] Express Endpoint IRQ 0
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
Capabilities: [13c] Virtual Channel
Capabilities: [160] Device Serial Number 1f-00-43-ff-ff-3a-b8-f7
Capabilities: [16c] Power Budgeting
[root at musashi ~]#
[root at musashi ~]#
6 - Verifying that the system has the logical hardware recognized:
[root at musashi ~]#
[root at musashi ~]#
[root at musashi ~]# ifconfig wlan0
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1F:3A:43:F7:B8
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:177 Memory:fe7fc000-fe800000
[root at musashi ~]#
[root at musashi ~]#
[root at musashi ~]#
[root at musashi ~]# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
sit0 no wireless extensions.
vmnet1 no wireless extensions.
vmnet8 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11a ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:270 Mb/s Tx-Power:32 dBm
RTS thr:2347 B Fragment thr:2346 B
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
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
[root at musashi ~]#
[root at musashi ~]#
7 - Creating and configuring file relacted about wireless card:
[root at musashi ~]#
[root at musashi ~]# cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0
TYPE=Wireless
DEVICE=wlan0
HWADDR=00:1F:3A:43:F7:B8
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
#NETMASK=
DHCP_HOSTNAME=dlink >>>>>> The hostname "dlink" id specified in /etc/hosts
file
#IPADDR=
#DOMAIN=
ONBOOT=no
USERCTL=yes
IPV6INIT=no
PEERDNS=no
ESSID=1234
CHANNEL=6
MODE=Auto
SECURITYMODE=wep
RATE=auto
[root at musashi ~]#
[root at musashi ~]#
[root at musashi ~]#
[root at musashi ~]# cat /etc/hosts
# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
::1 localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6
10.1.1.1 dlink
[root at musashi ~]#
[root at musashi ~]#
8 - My complaint totally nervous:
[root at musashi ~]#
[root at musashi ~]# Ohhhhhhh shit !!!!!!
bash: Ohhhhhhh: command not found
[root at musashi ~]#
[root at musashi ~]#
2009/10/23 S.Tindall <s10dal at elrepo.org>
>
> On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 17:24 -0200, Wagner Silva Vieira wrote:
>
> > Steve,
> >
> > I did all procedures that you suggested.
> >
> > Look at these bellow:
> >
> > # uname -rpmi
> > 2.6.18-128.el5PAE i686 i686 i386
> >
> > # rpm -q kmod-ndiswrapper-PAE
> > kmod-ndiswrapper-PAE-1.54-4.el5.elrepo.i686
> >
> > # ifconfig wlan0
> > wlan0: error fetching interface information: Device not found
> >
> > Must I create the configuration file ifcfg-wlan0 like ifcfg-eth0
> > in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ to get success in command "ifconfig
> > wlan0" ?
> >
> > I'll find informations about it in some manuals and books mine.
> >
> > Thank's for the help guys!
>
> Wagner.
>
> It looks like ndiswrapper is OK and that the current problem is with
> installing the BCM4328 firmware.
>
> Noting that we appear to have the same Broadcom chipset (BCM4328), there
> is a newer Dell firmware (R174291.EXE) that I found to work better than
> the original R151517.EXE. There may be newer firmware that works even
> better, but I have not researched it a while.
>
> Here are some steps that should work for you, but I should warn you that
> I am not a wireless expert:
>
> $ mkdir ~/wireless
> $ cd ~/wireless
> $ wget http://ftp.us.dell.com/network/R174291.EXE
> $ mkdir driver
> $ sudo yum install unzip
> $ unzip -a R174291.EXE -d driver/
> $ cd driver/DRIVER_US
>
> $ sudo /usr/sbin/ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf
> $ sudo /usr/sbin/ndiswrapper -l
>
> $ sudo vi /etc/modprobe.conf
> > Add/modify:
> alias wlan0 ndiswrapper
>
> $ sudo /sbin/modprobe ndiswrapper
>
> $ sudo vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0
> > Add/modify:
> TYPE=Wireless
> DEVICE=wlan0
> HWADDR=<Actual-MAC>
> BOOTPROTO=dhcp
> NETMASK=
> DHCP_HOSTNAME=<dhcp-host-name>
> IPADDR=
> DOMAIN=
> ONBOOT=no
> USERCTL=yes
> IPV6INIT=no
> PEERDNS=yes
> ESSID=
> CHANNEL=
> MODE=Auto
> SECURITYMODE=off
> RATE=auto
>
> If avahi and NetworkManager are not already installed and running, then:
>
> $ sudo yum install avahi NetworkManager
> $ sudo /sbin/chkconfig avahi-daemon on
> $ sudo /sbin/chkconfig NetworkManager on
> $ sudo /sbin/service avahi-daemon start
> $ sudo /sbin/service NetworkManager start
>
> You may need to reboot the system at this point.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Steve
>
>
>
>
>
>
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