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HeXiLeD · Post by **HeXiLeD** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 9:43 am

I was trying to set up my wireless mobo builtin card using ndiswrapper but i am having some problems

wireless is all new to me so i will explain the problem and if anyone knows anything that can help me i would be very thankfull.
mboard :
http://usa.asus.com/products/mb/socket7 ... erview.htm

lspci :
0000:01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88W8310 and 88W8000G [Libertas] 802.11g client chipset (rev 07)

net-wireless/wireless-tools installed
net-wireless/ndiswrapper : 1.2 installed

lsmod :
Module Size Used by
ndiswrapper 184176 0

# ndiswrapper -l
Installed ndis drivers:
mrv8ka51 driver present, hardware present

I installed the drivers from asus
manual that i was reading : http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/medi ... /Main_Page

and for some reason i cant bring the wireless card up .
Any ideas ? maybe another driver to try to use ?

Havin_it · Post by **Havin_it** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 9:53 am

Hi,

To have ndiswrapper create an interface for the card, you also need to do

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ndiswrapper -m

to add the line "alias wlan0 ndiswrapper" to /etc/modules.conf. You also have to add configuration directives to either /etc/conf.d/net or /etc/conf.d/wireless - have you done this?

HeXiLeD · Post by **HeXiLeD** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 4:20 pm

Well.. the only thing missing is /etc/conf.d/wireless .
but how can i do that if

# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

sit0 no wireless extensions.

ip6tnl0 no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

eth1 no wireless extensions.

eth2 no wireless extensions.

vmnet1 no wireless extensions.

vmnet8 no wireless extensions.

....i should have the wireless nic here . none of these is the wireless one.

Havin_it · Post by **Havin_it** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 11:35 pm

Blimey - well you are not short of NICs!

First, you have three ethernet NICs there - is this correct, or might one of them be the wireless card?
If you're not sure, you can check how the system identifies them with

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dmesg | grep eth0

#repeat for eth1, eth2

If one of these turns out to be the wireless card, you'll need to alter /etc/modules.conf accordingly. Open it in your favourite editor as root, find the line 'alias wlan0 ndiswrapper' and substitute eth0 or whichever is the wireless NIC.

You'll also want to add configuration info for your network to the file /etc/conf.d/wireless and/or /etc/conf.d/net - for instructions on how to compose these files, look at net.example and wireless.example in /etc/conf.d.

You might also want to make the wireless network come up at boot. In this case you need two things: add the line 'ndiswrapper' [no quotes] to /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 and ensure there is a symlink to /etc/init.d/net.lo from /etc/init.d/net.eth0 (or whichever interface it is)

You can start the interface by running

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/etc/init.d/net.eth0 start

#...and if it works, to make it start at boot...#

rc-update add net.eth0 default

When you reboot it should then try to come up automatically. Just ask if you have questions about any of these steps!

HeXiLeD · Post by **HeXiLeD** » Tue Sep 06, 2005 12:24 am

Well... i know what you are saying ...
But the problem is the only thing missing is the wireless card being "detected"

All those nics are wired i have 2 builtin GB nics and a pci 100mb nic too.
As for the the vmnet one they are from vmware ( they are virtual )
the rest its how the system is.
Now the only .conf missing is /etc/conf.d/wireless

All the other confs are done as you mentioned

/etc/modules.conf
# Internal Aliases - Do not edit
# ------------------------------
alias wlan0 ndiswrapper

/etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6
#wireless
ndiswrapper

as for /etc/init.d/net.eth0, i want it to use the wirered nic.
i want to be able to have the wired and wirelss working at the same time

as for : /etc/conf.d/wireless , this is the only thing i havent done yet because if the wireless nic is not detected how can i make its conf ?

Havin_it · Post by **Havin_it** » Tue Sep 06, 2005 10:52 am

net.eth0 was just an example based on the possibility of eth0 being found to be the wireless card (which it's not).

You should in that case issue the following (as root)

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cd /etc/init.d

ln -s net.lo net.wlan0

rc-update add net.wlan0 default

As for /etc/conf.d/wireless, there are detailed instructions in /etc/conf.d/wireless.example - if you don't have this file at all, let me know and I'll post an example config. It only gets complex if you have a series of APs to configure.

PS - You should have a look at dmesg | grep ndiswrapper to see what the driver is doing.

HeXiLeD · Post by **HeXiLeD** » Tue Sep 06, 2005 11:30 am

i belive this is the problem :

# dmesg | grep ndiswrapper
ndiswrapper version 1.2 loaded (preempt=no,smp=yes)
ndiswrapper (check_nt_hdr:152): Windows driver is not 64-bit; bad magic: 010B
ndiswrapper (load_sys_files:520): unable to prepare driver 'mrv8ka51'
<ffffffff883e11cb>{:ndiswrapper:unload_ndis_driver+137}
Modules linked in: ndiswrapper nvidia
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff883e11cb>] <ffffffff883e11cb>{:ndiswrapper:unload_ndis_driver+137}
Call Trace:<ffffffff883e2348>{:ndiswrapper:wrapper_ioctl+4426}
RIP <ffffffff883e11cb>{:ndiswrapper:unload_ndis_driver+137} RSP <ffff81003b901dd8>
<3>ndiswrapper (ndiswrapper_load_driver:93): loadndiswrapper failed (9); check system log for messages from 'loadndisdriver'

and i just downloaded the latest asus 64bit drivers ..

==================================

eheh new drivers . wlan0 is up ! later i will check things ....

frenkel · Post by **frenkel** » Tue Sep 06, 2005 1:17 pm

You need to select wireless support in the kernel first, before you can use ndiswrapper...

HeXiLeD · Post by **HeXiLeD** » Tue Sep 06, 2005 9:47 pm

okay... lets double check this

kernel wireless settings are :

<*> 802.1d Ethernet Bridging
<*> 802.1Q VLAN Support

my wireless windows driver is :

Version V2.7.1.2 2005/02/16 update
OS WinXP / Win2003
Description Marvell WiFi Driver V2.7.1.2 beta client for windows 64bit XP/2003.
File Size 2.25 (MBytes)

from : http://dlsvr03.asus.com/pub/ASUS/lan/wi ... _64bit.zip

# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

sit0 no wireless extensions.

ip6tnl0 no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

eth1 no wireless extensions.

eth2 no wireless extensions.

vmnet1 no wireless extensions.

vmnet8 no wireless extensions.

Warning: Driver for device wlan0 recommend version 18 of Wireless Extension,
but has been compiled with version 17, therefore some driver features
may not be available...

wlan0 IEEE 802.11FH ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Channel:0 Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Sensitivity=-200 dBm
RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:100 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:2 Missed beacon:0

ifconfig gives me :

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:11:D8:2A:53:FE
inet6 addr: fe80::211:d8ff:fe2a:53fe/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Memory:caca0000-cacaffff

# lsmod
Module Size Used by
ndiswrapper 184176 0

# ndiswrapper -l
Installed ndis drivers:
mrv8knt driver present, hardware present

# dmesg | grep ndiswrapper
ndiswrapper (wrapper_worker_proc:1095): wlan0 is being reset

# /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 restart
* Starting wlan0
* Configuring wireless network for wlan0
* no access points found
* Couldn't find any access points on wlan0
* Failed to configure wireless for wlan0

The only thing i am missing now is one .conf
this : /etc/conf.d/wireless
I have /etc/conf.d/wireless.example but i would like to see one simple working conf from anyone if possible.

If everything is ok and all i am missing now is to do /etc/conf.d/wireless conf; let me know.

There is also one other detail about my wireless nic. it can work as a wireless router too, but right now i just want to client to work.

mobo : http://www.asus.com/products/mb/socket7 ... erview.htm

TWO515TY · Post by **TWO515TY** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 3:16 am

Yay, another P5AD2-E Premium user. Getting some of my hardware (mainly the network stuff) to work with this mobo was a mofo, but in the end, I got it going.

Basically, to get the wireless working, you need to use ndiswrapper-1.0, not 1.2. Go to the ndiswrapper website, download and compile ndiswrapper-1.0 (I think you can emerge it, but I'm not sure). Install the necessary drivers, then do

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modprobe ndiswrapper

and you should be able to use the wireless-tools to get it going from there.

Do note though that although this process worked for, me, I was using a 32 bit-install, and 32-bit drivers. It may be different if you're on a 64-bit install and using 64-bit drivers.

HeXiLeD · Post by **HeXiLeD** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 4:12 am

Yes i am 64bit. I will try your solution later if nothing else works.

frenkel · Post by **frenkel** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 6:53 am

Blue-Steel wrote:okay... lets double check this

kernel wireless settings are :

<*> 802.1d Ethernet Bridging
<*> 802.1Q VLAN Support

my wireless windows driver is :

Version V2.7.1.2 2005/02/16 update
OS WinXP / Win2003
Description Marvell WiFi Driver V2.7.1.2 beta client for windows 64bit XP/2003.
File Size 2.25 (MBytes)

from : http://dlsvr03.asus.com/pub/ASUS/lan/wi ... _64bit.zip

# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

sit0 no wireless extensions.

ip6tnl0 no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

eth1 no wireless extensions.

eth2 no wireless extensions.

vmnet1 no wireless extensions.

vmnet8 no wireless extensions.

Warning: Driver for device wlan0 recommend version 18 of Wireless Extension,
but has been compiled with version 17, therefore some driver features
may not be available...

wlan0 IEEE 802.11FH ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Channel:0 Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Sensitivity=-200 dBm
RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:100 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:2 Missed beacon:0

ifconfig gives me :

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:11:D8:2A:53:FE
inet6 addr: fe80::211:d8ff:fe2a:53fe/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Memory:caca0000-cacaffff

# lsmod
Module Size Used by
ndiswrapper 184176 0

# ndiswrapper -l
Installed ndis drivers:
mrv8knt driver present, hardware present

# dmesg | grep ndiswrapper
ndiswrapper (wrapper_worker_proc:1095): wlan0 is being reset

# /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 restart
* Starting wlan0
* Configuring wireless network for wlan0
* no access points found
* Couldn't find any access points on wlan0
* Failed to configure wireless for wlan0

The only thing i am missing now is one .conf
this : /etc/conf.d/wireless
I have /etc/conf.d/wireless.example but i would like to see one simple working conf from anyone if possible.

If everything is ok and all i am missing now is to do /etc/conf.d/wireless conf; let me know.

There is also one other detail about my wireless nic. it can work as a wireless router too, but right now i just want to client to work.

mobo : http://www.asus.com/products/mb/socket7 ... erview.htm

copy /etc/conf.d/wireless.example to /etc/conf.d/wireless and configure it to your needs, if you don' t understand how, give me some info about your accesspoint, are you using WEP, WPA, nothing...

Havin_it · Post by **Havin_it** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 10:11 am

Here's an example config for a static-IP connection to a router with WEP authentication.

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config_wlan0=( "192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0" )
routes_wlan0=( "default gw 192.168.0.1" )
essid_wlan0="myAPname"
mode_wlan0="managed"
key_wlan0="AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"

If your AP uses WPA authentication, you need to use wpa_supplicant instead of the normal wireless-tools. You can read about how to use it HERE.

HeXiLeD · Post by **HeXiLeD** » Sat Sep 10, 2005 5:02 am

I was finally able to use my wireless for a simple test.

I can say that this problem had a solution and it is now solved.
Gentoo detected and got connected to a wireless router.

There are some details about the wireless .confs but they are not a big issue for now since i still use wired connection most of the time.
The important is that the Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88W8310 and 88W8000G [Libertas] 802.11g client chipset (rev 07) works on gentoo with ndiswrapper.

Thank you