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Hi

 

I am using a WLG-1203 wireless card (Cameo) with NDISWrapper and mrv800c.inf on Mandriva 2009.

 

I installed the card and set it up - all was great! Downloaded updates from the web and shut down.

 

Drove 160km to install the PC for my daughter - do you think I could get it going again. WHen I started the PC, the settings had gone. I tried to reinstall the WIndows driver and it kept locking up the Control Centre networking tool. Re-seated the PCI card - no change.

 

Despite NDISWrapper being installed (I double checked) I am getting a message like "Unable to find the NDISWrapper interface".

 

I am not an expert on blacklisting (is this the issue)? I tried blackisting (is it tg3?) in /etc/modules.d/blacklist.mdv (or similar - I am not in front of a Linux PC at the moment) with only slight improvements to the locking up situation - but no working WLAN card.

 

It was going so it must be possible to get it going again! I am hoping to coach my daughter long distance to do this.

 

Any help appreciated.

Thanks

John

 

[moved from Tips and Tricks by Greg2]

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Further to the above - I have determined on an identical system that the above mentioned WLAN card works with a supplied driver natively in Linux. At one stage I did try this on the problem system with no success.

 

So any ideas on how to get the system to recognize the native driver - better than using NDSIWrapper presumably.

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Yep, it does sound like a Marvel chipset, so you do have to use ndiswrapper.

There is probably a (wrong) native driver which is loaded by the system at bootup, and which locks ndiswrapper. It has to be blacklisted.

Do what Greg2 suggested, and then an lsmod.

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Yes - the MS Windows driver is mrv8000c.inf (Cameo).

 

However on the work identical PC I got it going with 88w8335[Libertas] with no NDISWrapper installed (straight out of the box).

 

This came up as an option alongside Windows driver.

 

This option will not come up on my daughter's PC.

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Are you talking about the same card? If it is the same product, but not the same card, there may be a simple explanation.

 

Card manufacturers sometimes package different chipsets under the same product name, but give it a different version. It is not uncommon that version 1.1 of product X works with native Linux drivers, and version 1.2 is just waste of money, even though the cards appear to be identical.

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The output was:

 

02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5751 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 01)

04:02.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88w8335 [Libertas] 802.11b/g Wireless (rev 03)

 

John

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Yes, there is a native driver, namely mrv8k. However it's almost totally broken, so I find it surprising that it works on your daughter's PC.

IMHO the most secure shot is blacklisting the erratic "mrv8k" module and then using ndiswrapper.

Checkout these instructions- they are made with Ubuntu in mind, but they apply for other distros as well.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/mrv8k

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