[arch-general] Wireless-N 300 [Broadcom BCM43231] - FATAL: Error inserting ndiswrapper
Guys, I hope somebody can point me in the right direction. I have a small dell I moved into our TV console to use as a media center box. I installed a wireless usb adapter 'WNA3100(v1) Wireless-N 300 [Broadcom BCM43231]' to join the box to our wireless network. The box dual-boots and works fine under xp, so after reading https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Broadcom_wireless and not finding the model in the kernel driver, I decided to try ndiswrapper. I have run into an issue that I'm stuck on. Basically I get the following: 21:44 supersff:~/cnf> lsusb Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0846:9020 NetGear, Inc. WNA3100(v1) Wireless-N 300 [Broadcom BCM43231] <snip> [21:39 supersff:/home/david/cnf/netgear/Netgear] # ndiswrapper -i bcmwlhigh5.inf installing bcmwlhigh5 ... [21:39 supersff:/home/david/cnf] # ndiswrapper -l bcmwlhigh5 : driver installed device (0846:9020) present [21:40 supersff:/home/david/cnf/netgear/Netgear] # depmod -a [21:40 supersff:/home/david/cnf/netgear/Netgear] # modprobe ndiswrapper FATAL: Error inserting ndiswrapper (/lib/modules/3.1.5-1-ARCH/extramodules/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper.ko.gz): Invalid argument I'm not sure if this is a ndiswrapper problem, a modprobe issue or a driver problem? ndiswrapper shows the driver installed, but for some reason it seems to be choking on the compressed module and throwing the invalid argument error. Anybody have any thoughts on this? I searched the bugs, but didn't find anything on ndiswrapper or modprobe. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 1:10 PM, David C. Rankin <drankinatty@suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
I hope somebody can point me in the right direction. I have a small dell I moved into our TV console to use as a media center box. I installed a wireless usb adapter 'WNA3100(v1) Wireless-N 300 [Broadcom BCM43231]' to join the box to our wireless network. The box dual-boots and works fine under xp, so after reading https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Broadcom_wireless and not finding the model in the kernel driver, I decided to try ndiswrapper. I have run into an issue that I'm stuck on.
First, have you tried the generic broadcom-wl driver instead of ndiswrapper? It causes some problems sometimes, but in my experience it is pretty much the easiest way to get a Broadcom card working that is not in the kernel. You can install it from AUR or build it yourself after downloading the source from broadcom (there's a link in the wiki). You might have to blacklist b43 and/or ssb because those can cause conflicts with the wl module sometimes. However, I found some similar issue on Ubuntu, which was a version conflict problem. There was some older version of ndiswrapper in Ubuntu's packet manager which was not compatible with the kernel, so the fix was to manually install a newer version. Might be a long shot, but if nothing works, you might try to install ndiswrapper-1.57rc1 instead of 1.56 (the version in pacman). I'm not sure if the 1.57rc1 is in the testing repos, but you can get it from SourceForge if not. http://sourceforge.net/projects/ndiswrapper/files/ Tell me if anything of this works for you.
On 12/16/2011 10:40 PM, Alex Liu wrote:
First, have you tried the generic broadcom-wl driver instead of ndiswrapper? <snip>
Tell me if anything of this works for you.
Alex, Thanks, will do. The current xp drivers work fantastic, so I will try the ndiswrapper avenue first. If I can get that going, then I think wpa_supplicant should work fine for wpa authentication. Worse case, I have another wireless router I could use as a repeater for the existing wireless and simply provide a wired connection to the dell box from that: -------- -------- --[net]-->|existing| >)) ((> |new |-- wired conn to dell --> |wireless| |wireless|-- wired conn to TV --> |router | |repeater|-- wired conn to bluray --> -------- -------- I think the biggest issue right now is why ndiswrapper isn't working properly. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 2:05 PM, David C. Rankin <drankinatty@suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
I think the biggest issue right now is why ndiswrapper isn't working properly.
this isn't a direct solution, but as i spent a great deal of time recently-ish finding good (USB) wifi chips to use as APs and as a client stations, it may be useful. if your still having issues, or just want to ditch the trouble, i've used about 7-9 Atheros chips recently and all have been rock solid. i'm using this one as we "speak" (AP): (TP-LINK TL-WN822N High Gain [300Mbps]) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833704053 ... and this one (client): (TP-LINK TL-WN722N High Gain [150Mbps]) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833704045 ... each purchased at ~$12USD (on sale). i bought the 822 to replace the 722, but both are good quality, and both are capable of AP/client/etc (ath9k_htc module) ... depending on how valuable your time is, could be worth the price ... definitely was for me :-) http://www.wikidevi.com/wiki/TP-LINK_TL-WN822N_v2 https://plus.google.com/photos/108503563222361035446/albums/5682381661343225... ^^^^^^ what i did with mine (pic shows 722, but 822 in use now :-) -- C Anthony
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Alex Liu
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C Anthony Risinger
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David C. Rankin