Need help w/ bcm43xx-mac80211 issues? (ndiswrapper considered harmful )

[Jorge Boscan]

hi

same here I also added bcm43xx

now ndiswrapper works, no wpa thou

On 6/4/07, lee <lee at bellcorp.com> wrote:
>
>  Had same problem, went to /etc/modprobe.d file blacklist and copy in
> bcm43xx-mac80211 driver info. reboot and ndiswrapper worked
>
> Lee
>
>
> On Monday 04 June 2007, John W. Linville wrote:
>
>
>  >First, the issue that lots of people are having...if you are getting
> >the "YOUR FIRMWARE IS TOO OLD" issue, I recommend that you follow
> >this procedure:
> >
> > # you need to be root
> > wget
> http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0.tar.bz2
> > tar -xjvf broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0.tar.bz2
> > bcm43xx-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware/ broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0/kmod/wl_apsta.o
> >
>
>  Since that was a newer driver than the 4.40.1 that came with xp, I did
> this.
> But the net result is still the same, dhcp times out. The logged messages
> appear to be identical while its failing. See my other, very lengthy post
> for those please.
>
>
>
>  >That should fix things for most people. However, some people still
> >need/want to use the older driver even on devices that are (or should
> >be) supported by the newer driver. If you are in this situation,
> >I recommend this procedure:
> >
> > # save the file attached to this email as "bcm43xx-old-config"
> > # you need to be root
> > ./bcm43xx-old-config
> >
> >The internals of that file look a little hairy, so I don't want people
> >having to type the commands themselves... :-) Anyway, the second
> >procedure is ONLY for those who have completed the first procedure and
> >find the bcm43xx-mac80211 driver to be unacceptable. This includes
> >_some_ bcm4318 users and apparently a _few_ bcm4306 users. This should
> >keep most of you from having to use an unsupportable alternative
> >like ndiswrapper.
> >
>
>  It would be nice indeed if ndiswrapper would work, but its lsmod displayed
> use
> count is 0. If someone who has it working would please post that snippet of
> their lsmod report so I could compare, I'd appreciate it.
>
>
>
>  >Hth!
> >
> >John
>
>
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