DSL 3.1 NDISWRAPPER Problem

Forum: Networking
Topic: DSL 3.1 NDISWRAPPER Problem
started by: rmccarri

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Posted by rmccarri on Dec. 23 2006,00:23

Hi,
I am trying to get the new 3.1 DSL distribution up and running on an eMachines laptop with a Broadcom 4320 wireless adapter.

I had a previous distribution working perfectly with NDISWRAPPER using the all too familiar bcmwl5 driver.  However, with this new version, I am not able to connect to my access point.  Has anyone else had this problem?

Thanks in advance for any advice.

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Posted by deadyoda on Dec. 23 2006,16:33

You should write here the error msg you have with "dmesg"

It could help (?)

And give the working version of dsl

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Posted by Casandro on Jan. 07 2007,20:19

Quote (deadyoda @ Dec. 23 2006,11:33)

You should write here the error msg you have with "dmesg" It could help (?) And give the working version of dsl

Well I've seen the message. Although I don't really have the details here, offhand. I can tell you that I had the same problem on Ubuntu. The only thing that helped was updating ndiswrapper. So it's most likely an ndiswrapper problem. Please include a newer version, if possible. Thanks.

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Posted by Casandro on Jan. 08 2007,17:44

Quote (deadyoda @ Dec. 23 2006,11:33)

And give the working version of dsl

The error in ndsl (the newest version) is like this:
ndiswrapper version 1.14 loaded (preemt=yes,smp=yes)
ndiswrapper: driver gplus (D-Link, 04/09/2004,6.0.0.18) loaded
loadndisdriver: page allocation failure. order:7, mode:0xd0
Then there's something which looks like a stack trace or something.
ndiswrapper (NdisMAllocateSharedMemory:926): couldn't allocate 409600 bytes of un-cached DMA memory.
ndiswrapper (miniport_init:273): coudn't initialize device: X0000001
ndiswrapper (pnp_start_device:497): Windows drier coudln't initialize the device (C000000001)
ndiswrapper: probe of 0000:00:0a.0 failed with error -22

I'm sorry for any typoes. essentially it fails the same on DSL 3.1 and ndsl. It also failed on Ubuntu. There compiling the ndiswrapper module solved the problem.

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