[arch-general] ndiswrapper problem

Aaron Griffin aaronmgriffin at gmail.com
Sun Feb 15 15:53:46 EST 2009


On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Avramucz Péter <muczyjoe at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have a Broadcom 4312 (rev 01). It seems to be, the best method is
> ndiswrapper using it. However, when I use it, wpa_supplicant can
> associate with the ap, but dhclient/dhcpcd can't get a dhcpoffer.
> Using the wl driver, there is no problem.
> Here is the interesting thing:
> using sysrescueccd (2.6.27 kernel, 1.53 ndiswrapper ebuild:
> http://gentoo-portage.com/AJAX/Ebuild/49806/View), I can simply get a
> dhcpoffer, so there is something with the ndiswrapper of Arch Linux.
> Any ideas?

It probably has nothing to do with Arch and everything to do with the
kernel differences. Report it upstream


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