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Well, I did a fresh install of mandriva, Blacklisted and deleted bcm43xx, added an alias wlan0 ndiswrapper line to modprobe.conf and installed the kernel and source updated you listed above, restarted, tried to compile the new version of Ndiswrapper from source, failed miserably for some reason, got some errors (I'll past them in here later), so I decided just to install the versions on the CD's. ent into package manager and installed ndiswrapper and the ndiswrapper kernel. After this, I went into Konsole and installed the 54 bit XP drivers manually, and configured them to work with my wireless card device via -d. After doing this, I went into configuration/Network and tried to install a new network connection. I chose wireless, then hit "use a windows drivers (with ndiswrapper)". I elected the driver, hit Next, and... Lo and behold, The same error comes up. Ndiswrapper interface not found. I'm not sure what I should do from here, I'm completely lost as to where I should look to get this working now.

Thanks, I'll try that, but I dont think it's going to work, because on my linux box I don't have any internet at all until I can get wireless, and for some reason (Why?!) there's no kernel source on my CD's. Here's a sort of list showing where my problems are and what I am thinking they are because of and how I need to fix them: Wireless Connection: Card: Get card recognised - Solution: Drivers. Drivers: Blacklist bcm43xx - Solved. Ndiswrapper: -Get a working version of Ndiswrapper (I assume it's because the one I have is 32 bit, where I need the 64 bit version. Solution: Compile from source) Compiling Ndiswrapper from source: -Require commands to do so (Solved) -Get Kernel source and install Getting kernel Source and Installing: Kernel source not on CD's (Wtf btw), Need to find a kernel source for a vanilla installed version of Mandriva Free 64 bit edition. Possible solution: Urpmi (Still have to try). Other possible problems: 64 bit drivers. Though they say they are, I am not 100% positive that the drivers I have are in fact usable for my 64 bit computer, and my card's chipset. So what I need to do: Find, download and install the kernel source for the vanilla install of mandriva free x86_64 Using this, (And making sure there's that build file), compile the latest Ndiswrapper from source After getting that, I'll need to try out and use 64 bit windows drivers to associate them to the correct PCI card in Terminal with Ndiswrapper Then, ensuring that bcm43xx is blacklisted, I should be able to go into the GUI and configure my wireless connection from there. Ugh. I know all of the Konsole commands that I need, and I know what I need to do, now I just need the correct files, and hope that it works. Does this sound about right to you all? And could someone help me find the files? Thanks all for helping me, I do appreciate the time and effort spent in trying to help me out.

Unfortunatley, I haven't configured urpmi at all, so when I type that, it finds nothing. I ran rpmdrake as root, and uninstalled my kernel source package (you were right, it was upgraded prematurely), so now I need a 2.6.17-13 version. ugh.

Thats sounds about right, as to what I should do, but I've been getting an error in the installation: [root@localhost ndiswrapper-1.47]# make make -C driver make[1]: Entering directory `/home/matt/Documents/ndiswrapper-1.47/driver' Can't find kernel build files in /lib/modules/2.6.17-5mdv/build; give the path to kernel build directory with KBUILD=<path> argument to make make[1]: *** [prereq_check] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/matt/Documents/ndiswrapper-1.47/driver' make: *** [all] Error 2 From what I can fathom, it's from my having not installed the kernel source in the initial installation, but seeing as it's not on my CD's, I couldn't possibly have done so. Any ideas on where I might be able to download a replacement or some kind, or generate one? Am I on track here? If anyone has one, could they send it to me so I can try plugging that in and seeing how it goes? Edit: Just a reminder that I have actually installed the kernel source RPM which I downloaded externally and installed seperatley. It did not create the file, oddly enough. Anyone?

Ugh. Nope, again with the whole "not-working" deal. I had a lot of trouble tracking down 64bit Windows drivers for my card (If anyone could help me in this respect, that would be great), though I eventually found this site which had drivers that supposedly worked, so I tried them out. They installed correctly, but when I tried to use them with Ndiswrapper via the standard GUI, I got exactly the same error. adamw, below is the output of the command you asked for, after I removed the 32bit drivers. I cant seem to see any ndiswrapper entries, oddly enough: [root@localhost matt]# modprobe ndiswrapper [root@localhost matt]# dmesg Bootdata ok (command line is BOOT_IMAGE=linux root=801 resume=/dev/sda5 splash=silent) Linux version 2.6.17-5mdv (rtp@ramanujan.mandriva.com) (gcc version 4.1.1 20060724 (prerelease) (4.1.1-3mdk)) #1 SMP Wed Sep 13 14:28:02 EDT 2006 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000007ffc0000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000007ffc0000 - 000000007ffce000 (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: 000000007ffce000 - 000000007fff0000 (ACPI NVS) BIOS-e820: 000000007fff0000 - 0000000080000000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fef00000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000ff780000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) DMI 2.3 present. ACPI: RSDP (v000 ACPIAM ) @ 0x00000000000fba80 ACPI: RSDT (v001 A M I OEMRSDT 0x08000621 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x000000007ffc0000 ACPI: FADT (v002 A M I OEMFACP 0x08000621 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x000000007ffc0200 ACPI: MADT (v001 A M I OEMAPIC 0x08000621 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x000000007ffc0390 ACPI: MCFG (v001 A M I OEMMCFG 0x08000621 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x000000007ffc0400 ACPI: OEMB (v001 A M I AMI_OEM 0x08000621 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x000000007ffce040 ACPI: SSDT (v001 A M I POWERNOW 0x00000001 AMD 0x00000001) @ 0x000000007ffc5460 ACPI: DSDT (v001 A0626 A0626000 0x00000000 INTL 0x02002026) @ 0x0000000000000000 Scanning NUMA topology in Northbridge 24 Number of nodes 1 Node 0 MemBase 0000000000000000 Limit 000000007ffc0000 NUMA: Using 63 for the hash shift. Using node hash shift of 63 Bootmem setup node 0 0000000000000000-000000007ffc0000 On node 0 totalpages: 515696 DMA zone: 2679 pages, LIFO batch:0 DMA32 zone: 513017 pages, LIFO batch:31 Nvidia board detected. Ignoring ACPI timer override. ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x508 ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000 ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x00] enabled) Processor #0 15:3 APIC version 16 ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x02] lapic_id[0x01] enabled) Processor #1 15:3 APIC version 16 ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x02] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0]) IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 2, version 17, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23 ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 0 dfl dfl) ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 9 high level) ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 14 global_irq 14 high edge) ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 15 global_irq 15 high edge) ACPI: IRQ0 used by override. ACPI: IRQ9 used by override. ACPI: IRQ14 used by override. ACPI: IRQ15 used by override. Setting APIC routing to physical flat Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information Allocating PCI resources starting at 88000000 (gap: 80000000:7ec00000) Checking aperture... CPU 0: aperture @ f914000000 size 32 MB Aperture from northbridge cpu 0 too small (32 MB) No AGP bridge found SMP: Allowing 2 CPUs, 0 hotplug CPUs Built 1 zonelists Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=linux root=801 resume=/dev/sda5 splash=silent bootsplash: silent mode. Initializing CPU#0 PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 32768 bytes) Disabling vsyscall due to use of PM timer time.c: Using 3.579545 MHz WALL PM GTOD PM timer. time.c: Detected 2812.818 MHz processor. Console: colour dummy device 80x25 Dentry cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 9, 2097152 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes) Memory: 2059528k/2096896k available (2696k kernel code, 36980k reserved, 990k data, 220k init) Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 5632.12 BogoMIPS (lpj=11264241) Mount-cache hash table entries: 256 CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line) CPU: L2 Cache: 1024K (64 bytes/line) CPU 0/0(2) -> Node 0 -> Core 0 SMP alternatives: switching to UP code checking if image is initramfs... it is Freeing initrd memory: 463k freed ACPI: Looking for DSDT in initramfs... error, file /DSDT.aml not found. Using local APIC timer interrupts. result 12557204 Detected 12.557 MHz APIC timer. SMP alternatives: switching to SMP code Booting processor 1/2 APIC 0x1 Initializing CPU#1 Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 5625.92 BogoMIPS (lpj=11251852) CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line) CPU: L2 Cache: 1024K (64 bytes/line) CPU 1/1(2) -> Node 0 -> Core 1 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5600+ stepping 03 CPU 1: Syncing TSC to CPU 0. CPU 1: synchronized TSC with CPU 0 (last diff 1 cycles, maxerr 681 cycles) Brought up 2 CPUs testing NMI watchdog ... OK. migration_cost=304 NET: Registered protocol family 16 ACPI: bus type pci registered PCI: BIOS Bug: MCFG area at e0000000 is not E820-reserved PCI: Not using MMCONFIG. PCI: Using configuration type 1 ACPI: Subsystem revision 20060127 ACPI: Interpreter enabled ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00) PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00) PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:04.0 Boot video device is 0000:02:00.0 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.P0P1._PRT] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.P0P2._PRT] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.BR11._PRT] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.BR12._PRT] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 16 17 18 19) *0, disabled. ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 16 17 18 19) *0, disabled. ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 16 17 18 19) *11 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 16 17 18 19) *0, disabled. ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNEA] (IRQs 16 17 18 19) *0, disabled. ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNEB] (IRQs 16 17 18 19) *0, disabled. ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNEC] (IRQs 16 17 18 19) *0, disabled. ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNED] (IRQs 16 17 18 19) *11 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LUB0] (IRQs 20 21 22 23) *11 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LUB2] (IRQs 20 21 22 23) *10 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LMAC] (IRQs 20 21 22 23) *11 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LAZA] (IRQs 20 21 22 23) *11 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LACI] (IRQs 20 21 22 23) *0, disabled. ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LMC9] (IRQs 20 21 22 23) *0, disabled. ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LSMB] (IRQs 20 21 22 23) *10 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LPMU] (IRQs 20 21 22 23) *0, disabled. ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LSA0] (IRQs 20 21 22 23) *15 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LSA1] (IRQs 20 21 22 23) *5 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LATA] (IRQs 20 21 22 23) *0, disabled. PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq". If it helps, post a report PCI-DMA: Disabling IOMMU. PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:04.0 IO window: disabled. MEM window: dbf00000-dbffffff PREFETCH window: disabled. PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:09.0 IO window: e000-efff MEM window: dc000000-dfffffff PREFETCH window: c0000000-cfffffff PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:0b.0 IO window: disabled. MEM window: disabled. PREFETCH window: disabled. PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:0c.0 IO window: disabled. MEM window: disabled. PREFETCH window: disabled. PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:04.0 to 64 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:09.0 to 64 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:0b.0 to 64 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:0c.0 to 64 NET: Registered protocol family 2 IP route cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) TCP established hash table entries: 262144 (order: 10, 4194304 bytes) TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes) TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind 65536) TCP reno registered IA32 emulation $Id: sys_ia32.c,v 1.32 2002/03/24 13:02:28 ak Exp $ audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled) audit(1184847540.584:1): initialized Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0 VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1 Dquot-cache hash table entries: 512 (order 0, 4096 bytes) Initializing Cryptographic API io scheduler noop registered io scheduler anticipatory registered (default) io scheduler deadline registered io scheduler cfq registered PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:09.0 to 64 pcie_portdrv_probe->Dev[03e8:10de] has invalid IRQ. Check vendor BIOS assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability Allocate Port Service[0000:00:09.0:pcie00] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:0b.0 to 64 pcie_portdrv_probe->Dev[03e9:10de] has invalid IRQ. Check vendor BIOS assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability Allocate Port Service[0000:00:0b.0:pcie00] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:0c.0 to 64 pcie_portdrv_probe->Dev[03e9:10de] has invalid IRQ. Check vendor BIOS assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability Allocate Port Service[0000:00:0c.0:pcie00] vesafb: framebuffer at 0xdd000000, mapped to 0xffffc20000080000, using 3750k, total 14336k vesafb: mode is 800x600x16, linelength=1600, pages=2 vesafb: scrolling: redraw vesafb: Truecolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0 bootsplash 3.1.6-2004/03/31: looking for picture...<6> silentjpeg size 124058 bytes,<6>...found (800x600, 124010 bytes, v3). Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 93x31 fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device Real Time Clock Driver v1.12ac Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 32000K size 1024 blocksize Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12 serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1 mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice md: md driver 0.90.3 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27 md: bitmap version 4.39 TCP bic registered NET: Registered protocol family 1 ACPI wakeup devices: PS2K PS2M USB0 USB2 P0P1 HDAC P0P2 BR11 NMAC NSMB PWRB ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S3 S4 S5) BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 1 devices found Freeing unused kernel memory: 220k freed SCSI subsystem initialized libata version 1.20 loaded. sata_nv 0000:00:08.0: version 0.8 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LSA0] enabled at IRQ 23 GSI 16 sharing vector 0xD1 and IRQ 16 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:08.0[A] -> Link [LSA0] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 209 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:08.0 to 64 ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xD400 ctl 0xD082 bmdma 0xC880 irq 209 ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xD000 ctl 0xCC02 bmdma 0xC888 irq 209 input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input0 ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123) ata1: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:7069 83:7c61 84:4023 85:7069 86:3c41 87:4023 88:203f ata1: dev 0 ATA-7, max UDMA/100, 488397168 sectors: LBA48 ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/100 scsi0 : sata_nv ata2: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113) input: ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse as /class/input/input1 ata2: dev 0 cfg 49:0f00 82:0210 83:5000 84:4000 85:0210 86:1000 87:4000 88:203f ata2: dev 0 ATAPI, max UDMA/100 ata2: dev 0 configured for UDMA/100 scsi1 : sata_nv Vendor: ATA Model: WDC WD2500JS-60N Rev: 10.0 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 Vendor: SATA Model: DVDRW 18X18X12X Rev: JA31 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 05 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LSA1] enabled at IRQ 22 GSI 17 sharing vector 0xD9 and IRQ 17 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:08.1[B] -> Link [LSA1] -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 217 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:08.1 to 64 ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xC800 ctl 0xC482 bmdma 0xC000 irq 217 ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xC400 ctl 0xC082 bmdma 0xC008 irq 217 ata3: SATA link down (SStatus 0) scsi2 : sata_nv ata4: SATA link down (SStatus 0) scsi3 : sata_nv SCSI device sda: 488397168 512-byte hdwr sectors (250059 MB) sda: Write Protect is off sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back SCSI device sda: 488397168 512-byte hdwr sectors (250059 MB) sda: Write Protect is off sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back sda: sda1 sda2 < sda5 sda6 > sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. ts: Compaq touchscreen protocol output usbcore: registered new driver usbfs usbcore: registered new driver hub ohci_hcd: 2005 April 22 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LUB0] enabled at IRQ 21 GSI 18 sharing vector 0xE1 and IRQ 18 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:02.0[A] -> Link [LUB0] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 225 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:02.0 to 64 ohci_hcd 0000:00:02.0: OHCI Host Controller ohci_hcd 0000:00:02.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 ohci_hcd 0000:00:02.0: irq 225, io mem 0xdbeff000 usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 1-0:1.0: 10 ports detected ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LUB2] enabled at IRQ 20 GSI 19 sharing vector 0xE9 and IRQ 19 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:02.1[B] -> Link [LUB2] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 233 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:02.1 to 64 ehci_hcd 0000:00:02.1: EHCI Host Controller ehci_hcd 0000:00:02.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2 ehci_hcd 0000:00:02.1: debug port 1 PCI: cache line size of 64 is not supported by device 0000:00:02.1 ehci_hcd 0000:00:02.1: irq 233, io mem 0xdbefec00 ehci_hcd 0000:00:02.1: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004 usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 2-0:1.0: 10 ports detected sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 48x/48x writer dvd-ram cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 sr 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 usb 2-10: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2 usb 2-10: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice hub 2-10:1.0: USB hub found hub 2-10:1.0: 1 port detected usb 2-10.1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3 usb 2-10.1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... scsi4 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices usb-storage: device found at 3 usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage USB Mass Storage support registered. usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning ndiswrapper version 1.21 loaded (preempt=no,smp=yes) ndiswrapper (check_nt_hdr:149): kernel is 64-bit, but Windows driver is not 64-bit;bad magic: 010B ndiswrapper (load_sys_files:215): couldn't prepare driver 'bcmwl5' ndiswrapper (load_wrap_driver:113): loadndiswrapper failed (65280); check system log for messages from 'loadndisdriver' powernow-k8: Found 2 AMD Athlon 64 / Opteron processors (version 1.60.2) powernow-k8: 0 : fid 0x14 (2800 MHz), vid 0x8 (1350 mV) powernow-k8: 1 : fid 0x12 (2600 MHz), vid 0xa (1300 mV) powernow-k8: 2 : fid 0x10 (2400 MHz), vid 0xc (1250 mV) powernow-k8: 3 : fid 0xe (2200 MHz), vid 0xe (1200 mV) powernow-k8: 4 : fid 0xc (2000 MHz), vid 0x10 (1150 mV) powernow-k8: 5 : fid 0xa (1800 MHz), vid 0x10 (1150 mV) powernow-k8: 6 : fid 0x2 (1000 MHz), vid 0x12 (1100 mV) cpu_init done, current fid 0x14, vid 0x8 device-mapper: 4.6.0-ioctl (2006-02-17) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com EXT3 FS on sda1, internal journal Vendor: USB 2.0 Model: Flash Disk Rev: 1.00 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00 SCSI device sdb: 126976 512-byte hdwr sectors (65 MB) sdb: Write Protect is off sdb: Mode Sense: 00 26 00 00 sdb: assuming drive cache: write through SCSI device sdb: 126976 512-byte hdwr sectors (65 MB) sdb: Write Protect is off sdb: Mode Sense: 00 26 00 00 sdb: assuming drive cache: write through sdb: sdb1 sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sdb usb-storage: device scan complete sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0 sr 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 5 sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0 Adding 4088500k swap on /dev/sda5. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:4088500k kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS on sda6, internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. loop: loaded (max 8 devices, max 1 partitions per device) bootsplash 3.1.6-2004/03/31: looking for picture...<6> silentjpeg size 124058 bytes,<6>...found (800x600, 124010 bytes, v3). bootsplash: status on console 0 changed to on ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF] ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PWRB] NET: Registered protocol family 17 NET: Registered protocol family 10 lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver bootsplash 3.1.6-2004/03/31: looking for picture...<6>...found (800x600, 12533 bytes, v3). bootsplash: status on console 0 changed to on bootsplash 3.1.6-2004/03/31: looking for picture...<6>...found (800x600, 12533 bytes, v3). bootsplash: status on console 1 changed to on bootsplash 3.1.6-2004/03/31: looking for picture...<6>...found (800x600, 12533 bytes, v3). bootsplash: status on console 2 changed to on bootsplash 3.1.6-2004/03/31: looking for picture...<6>...found (800x600, 12533 bytes, v3). bootsplash: status on console 3 changed to on bootsplash 3.1.6-2004/03/31: looking for picture...<6>...found (800x600, 12533 bytes, v3). bootsplash: status on console 4 changed to on bootsplash 3.1.6-2004/03/31: looking for picture...<6>...found (800x600, 12533 bytes, v3). bootsplash: status on console 5 changed to on As you can probably notice, I ran it just after booting. Ndiswrapper -l shows the new driver as installed, with hardware present. When I try and run the new network wizard, I run into the same error (though I seem to have effectively killed off bcm43xx, It only asks for an ndiswrapper driver now). How might I co about installing a new version of ndiswrapper? I cant seem to compile ti from source (I don't really know how) and the rpm I downloaded of it would not work. can anyone link me a good one, or instruct me on installing it from the tarball? P.S: sorry about the massive code block, the spoiler function does not seem to work for me.

Thanks guys for your help, but I think this command may have just pointed out a very ignorant and stupid mistake I have made. Running the 64 bit version of Mandriva, I've apparently been trying to use a 32 bit driver (This command shows this). I'm now downloading a 64 bit driver and an updated version of Ndiswrapper, and I hope it should all work from there. After doing that, I think i'll use Ixthursdan's method to try and get it working. Just in case What I have done hasn't done the trick, what should I do to ensure that bcm43xx never, EVER returns? So far I've blacklisted it 4 times in various locations and renamed the folder it's in. Anything else I can do? How can I check? I'll get back you you all soon re; how it goes.

Thanks for the effort in replying, I do appreciate it. Unfortunatley, No dice with your idea. You'll probably understand it better than I do/did, so here is the result of iwconfig so you can se what I mean. Apparently it no longer even recognizes the wireless card as eth0, and nothing shows up at all! [root@localhost matt]# iwconfig wlan0 mode managed Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) : SET failed on device wlan0; No such device. [root@localhost matt]# iwconfig lo no wireless extensions. sit0 no wireless extensions. Cringe? And when I looked it up in Hardware config (It is lister under ethernetcard), This is the info it had for me: Identification Vendor: ?Broadcom Corp. Description: ?BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller Media class: ?NETWORK_OTHER Connection Bus: ?PCI Bus PCI #: ?1 PCI device #: ?10 PCI function #: ?0 Vendor ID: ?0x14e4 Device ID: ?0x4318 Sub vendor ID: ?0x1043 Sub device ID: ?0x100f Misc Module: ?bcm43xx Ugh, there seems to be an almost never ending stream of solutions that keep doing what appears to be nothing, or making the problem worse! Argh, I don't know what to do. I appreciate the help so far, Any chance someone could pull out a clever Idea. P.S: I installed the full source code, and it did absolutely nothing, as if it had never happened. apparently the Ndiswrapper error is not because of a lack of that. I've been looking around for solutions for a ridiculously long time now, and cant find anything that might be causing it, or any solution to it. I might try installing a newer version of NDISWrapper, does anyone know where I could find an RPM file of the latest version, or how I might install it via the tarball that is downloaded from their site?

Certainly. While I was at it, I got all the other ndiswrapper-command based info I could for you, just in case: [root@localhost matt]# ndiswrapper -l Installed drivers: bcmwl5 driver installed, hardware present [root@localhost matt]# ndiswrapper -v utils version: 1.8 driver version: 1.21 vermagic: 2.6.17-5mdv SMP mod_unload gcc-4.1 [root@localhost matt]# modprobe ndiswrapper [root@localhost matt]# /etc/ndiswrapper contains one folder, named bcmwl5 (The name of my driver), which contains various config files, the .inf file and the .sys file (So yes, the firmware is in there). I did have the .sys file in the same directory as the .inf when I ran ndiswrapper on the driver. Let me know If I can provide any more info, and thanks for the help.

Aye, I've tried that. It runs, seemingly successfully, no errors, just another command line pops up underneath it as if I'd just hit enter. Dosen't fix the problem though. Well that's what I thought for a while, but I've done everything I can think of short of deleting it in the directory itself to keep it out of my system: Added "Blacklist bcm43xx" to modprobe.conf Created a file "Blacklist" in modprobe.d and added bcm43xx to it (just in case it wants to pretend it's Ubuntu) Removed the line "Alias Eth0 bcm43xx" from modprobe.conf Removed bcm43xx from, and added a blacklist commend to "module" and some other modprobe files Is there anything I've missed? Should I actually track it down and hit it with a delete button? Just a side note here, I had the idea that NDISWrapper might be displaying that message because the Kernel source was not installed. I figured that might be causing me some problems, so I went to track it down (Apparently it's on CD3, but I checked them all) and Lo and behold, it's not on the x86_64 cd's. Not even the stripped version. Before I managed to get my CD's I accidentally torrented a DVD version, so I checked that, and that had the stripped version (but not the full source). What's going on there?! sebs crazy to not even put it on the CD's. Will the stripped source work for me? I guess I'll install it anyway and will be able to tell you that. Why is the source not on the CD's or the DVD of the 64 bit version? Makes no sense to me. P.P.S: Downloading it from one of the FTP sites it going to be a real hassle considering I broke my monthly downloads limit with the second download of Free, and now I'm running at 64k at best. Edit/Update: Unsurprisingly, installing the stripped source code via the .RPM in the DvD iso has absolutely no effect on anything. Guess I'd better start downloading the full source...

First of all, thanks for replying; I found my chip in the NDISwrapper lists, here's the info: Card: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 AirForce One 54g 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02) * Ndiswrapper version: 1.1-4 * Chipset name: Broadcom BCM4318 * PCIID: 02:03.0 (rev 02) * Windows driver location: http://biginoz.free.fr/linux/bcmwl5a.inf. Also need .sys file http://biginoz.free.fr/linux/bcmwl5.sys * Using Ubuntu 5.10 on Dell Inspiron 1300 I downloaded the sys file, but the .inf file just brings me up a page of text. I copied it into a notepad document (The computr I'm using to browse this is running windows), so what should I do with that to get it to work as a .inf? I see what you are saying here, but I dont know where to select this. In what screen/menu do I define the card as wlan0 instead of eth0? Thanks for replying, but I still don't see how I should go about configuring the card from here. I'm sorry to be a trouble, but if you could walk me through the steps you are proposing quickly, that'd be helpful.

Recently after being unable to connect to the internet using my Older USB wireless adapter(My old thread, here I thought was getting off topic, and that I could get some more accurate help here), I've gone out and bought an ASUS WL-138gE Wireless PCI Adapter (using the BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller chipset from the Broadcom Corporation). I assumed that Mandriva would be able to detect this, and that I would be able to simply use NDISwrapper via the network install interface to utilize the card. Unfortunately, it has gone far less smoothly, and I'm unable to connect to the wireless network at all. The wireless card is being recognized as device "eth0", an ethernet device. I assume this is meant to be "wlan0". This can be seen in the following screen captures: http://explorannator.plebsquad.com/albums/...ions_screen.JPG As you can see in above SS, it says I have no wireless connections, when the card itself in eth0 says it's wireless, ugh. I assumed I may be able to solve this by installing the windows drivers for it. Here is the process I followed using the GUI: http://explorannator.plebsquad.com/albums/...connection1.JPG Upon selecting that option, I am asked to select firmware for the device (Which is apparently configured using the bcm43xx drivers (Which are causing me problems) already). If I select the windows firmware (.sys file) the computer locks up and refuses to start up and I have to reformat it entirely and reinstall mandriva. If I hit cancel, the following comes up: http://explorannator.plebsquad.com/albums/...connection3.JPG As you can see, It's attempting to use the bcm43xx drivers (Which i have not specified, this is off a clean install). This happens even after I blacklisted those drivers in /etc/modprobe.conf. Anyway, I figured ti was probably a better idea to use the windows drivers that came with the device. Upon selecting this option, I am given this screen, having already installed bcmwl5.inf in Konsole. http://explorannator.plebsquad.com/albums/...connection5.JPG if I hit OK here, this is what comes up: http://explorannator.plebsquad.com/albums/...connection7.JPG I have tried getting the device to work graphically, by using this method, and by installing it simply in Terminal itself (Using Ndiswrapper -i drivername.inf, modprobe ndiswrapper). I'm feeling as if it's becoming helpless. I've already bought a new network card to connect to the wireless network, and have spent the last week trying for a really ridiculous amount of time to configure it. I can't use iwconfig to connect it as a wireless device, because it detects it as ethernet. I really cant stress enough how vital it is to be connected to the network for me. if I had the money on me, I would have no doubt turned back to windows by now out of pure convenience, but having just bought a new computer, I cannot. I do like how Mandriva runs, but it's worthless if i cant connect to the network and internet with it. Someone, please help! Edit: As an afterthought, it might be relevant that I'm running the 64bit Version of Mandriva.

Thanks, I do appreciate the help, but unfortunatley, in my impatience I've gone out and bought a New Wireless PCI Card. Unfortunately, I bought the version which does not have a linux driver listed on the Asus website. Something good about this new card is that mandriva actually recognizes that it's there. On the downside, it appears that there's a significant (And extremely frustrating) bug in the NDISWrapper driver installation part of the wireless network setup. Whenever I select a driver to use (Even after copying it, along with the sys file into a separate folder on the hard drive) and hit yes, I get a popup error message saying "Ndiswrapper interface was not found!" (Something very similar to it, I can check the exact wording if you need) and it errors me out of it all. It's all fairly Icky, really. I'd hoped that replacing that old and useless adapter would solve my linux problems, but apparently it's going to take a little more than that. Oh well, I'm attempting to install the drivers using the technique mentioned here next, which I'm hoping will solve my problems. Just for future reference, and possibly to save others like me some frustration and questioning of linux, is there anything I can do to help resolve the ndiswrapper GUI problems I've mentioned? So far they've proven rather debilitating. Thanks all, I'll get back to you on how it goes. Edit: Further looking around had revealed that there might be some native linux drivers compatible with this device. I'm really not sure what I'm looking for, and dont want to hurt my system, though this may be preferable to NDISWrapper drivers. It'd be a great help if someone knowledgeable could take a quick look for me, or point me in the right direction. Many thanks. Unfortunatley it was not successful. I have made a new thread regarding the issue as I felt this one did not really belong in the installation forums any longer. you can find it here.

Ah, excellent, thanks. Hah, Yeah, after installing Ubuntu, then Mandriva, I can see Ethernet being a significantly less troublesome connection to deal with. I would do that, but due to my situation, wireless is really the only way to go. I got that impression reading his post too, actually. I'm impressed at how many knowledgeable and helpful people there are willing to help in this community. Still waiting on a last minute solution of suggestion on what I should do re. my wireless problem. I'm thinking of going out and buying one of these That tryfan reported worked with mandriva in this thread. I also have the option of getting an Asus wl-167g, for about $15 cheaper, which scarecrow reported worked on his system in that same thread. If the both work the same way, then I'll naturally go the Asus (As it follows much of my other hardware), but considering that the actual network is being routed from a D link router, I might chose that. Honestly, I cant see either factor swaying it's performance at all really, but I'm leaning more towards the Asus given D-Link's pretty poor track record in my books. Still, I'm wondering if it's just not going to be possible with what I already have Any response would be useful. I plan to get it working today, if at all possible, So, If It's not going to work with what I already have, What would be your suggestion out of the two options I've noted above? Thanks.

I've actually run into this bug with my Nvidia 8600 Installing 2007.1 It occured when setting up my graphics card. Mine, not being recognized, X-Server automatically selected what I now assume is the default value (S something I think... 4 letter word... I'll edit if I remember it's name). Upon selecting this and testing my configuration with it, My screen received no signal from the computer (I.E: went blank as this poster is saying). Maybe it's got something to do with incompatibility between Graphics Card and X-Server drivers? And as a side note here, Because of this problem, it might be worthwhile having a countdown confirm timer after testing an X-Server setup during the install, such that if this should happen, one does not have to restart their machine and re-do the entire install process.

Thanks, that's a helpful reply. I should probably explain this now, I do realize why I'm having these troubles. My graphics card problems are understandable (But a nightmare for first-time Linux user to deal with), as are my Wireless network ones. The problem itself is that, yes, although it detects an unknown device, It's not letting me plug a driver into it to tell it what it is. In fact, it's acting, to a degree, as if I'd plugged something into a USB slot that had no relevance to anything at all. What I'm saying is: The computer simply doesn't recognise it as anything, but something that's there, and just accepts that and doesn't do anything further when I prod it. I get why this is the case: Due to The way Linux is made (People's free time and hard work), and the incredibly small percentage of users worldwide that would actually use a wireless USB adapter (Especially one as old as mine), It just doesn't get done. It's fair enough, really. Because of this, I think the way to go from here is to get a cheap but effective Wireless (Ethernet?) card and throw that in instead. And speaking of which, If I could get one today it would be good. Does anyone have any suggestions on what works for them or others What's good for Mandriva in terms of ethernet cards? Basically, could someone point me in the right direction. Sounds promising, but how will this work? Currently, it acts as if I have no graphics card at all, Will installing a driver force recognition? And a last question, By the Nvidia Driver, you are referring to the Linux Graphics Driver on the Nvidia site, correct? Just download and install the latest version? Thanks. Edit: Just looking into wireless cards (Ethernet is not what I'm looking for apparently) from a local dealer and the cheapest decent one they have in stock is $50. This is pretty hefty considering I have something that should already do the job for me. Anyone here have any clever solutions? At the moment, it doesn't look like I have much of a choice...