[arch-general] ndiswrapper problem

Tobias Powalowski t.powa at gmx.de
Mon Feb 16 01:23:38 EST 2009


Am Sonntag 15 Februar 2009 schrieb Avramucz Péter:
> hmmm... building ndiswrapper 1.54 vanilla works.
>
> On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 9:53 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> 
wrote:
> > 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
have you tried ndiswrapper package from testing too with kernel .28?

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Tobias Powalowski
Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa)
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