Wireless with NDISwrapper...

[Avalith]

I've just recently reinstalled Debian and I'm having issues with my wireless card again. I followed this how-to exactly last year when I had Debian installed initially and it always worked. Now, however, it doesn't seem to work. I'm currently running Debian Lenny/Sid. No error messages come up at all and everything acts like it works, but I'm still yet to get my wireless card working after a good two days or so of frustration, though luckily I have a wired connection at the moment so this won't be a major issue until the end of next week. Is there another way to go about doing this?

[valemon]

Open the terminal and post the output of

lspci
iwconfig
ndiswrapper -l
lsmod | grep ndiswrapper

[Avalith]

avalith@avcomp:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 01)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 01)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e1)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 01)
06:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI (rev 01)
08:08.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)

avalith@avcomp:~$ sudo ndiswrapper -l
bcmwl5 : driver installed

avalith@avcomp:~$ lsmod | grep ndiswrapper
ndiswrapper           174588  0 
usbcore               132940  6 ndiswrapper,usbhid,usb_storage,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd

iwconfig wasn't found.

[valemon]

iwconfig

should be run as root. From what I can see ndiswrapper installation is fine. The problem is you get no device present in the output of ndiswrapper -l. Post the output of iwconfig plus

lsmod | grep bcm43xx
lsmod | grep b43

[Avalith]

avalith@avcomp:~$ sudo iwconfig
sudo: iwconfig: command not found
avalith@avcomp:~$ lsmod | grep bcm43xx
avalith@avcomp:~$ lsmod | grep bc43

That's all I get.

[valemon]

Get wireless tools by

sudo apt-get install wireless-tools

Make sure you are using a correct windows driver. Also it's b43. please also post you whole lsmod output here.

[Avalith]

lsmod | grep b43
lsmod

[valemon]

Open the terminal and type

rmmod b43
rmmod ssb
rmmod ndiswrapper
echo "blacklist b43" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
echo "blacklist ssb" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

reinstall windows drivers and

depmod -a
modprobe ndiswrapper
ndiswrapper -ma

This should get you going. If you get any problem post or visit #linuxforums at irc.freenode.org
Also don't forget to install wireless tools.

[Avalith]

avalith@avcomp:~$ sudo rmmod b43
[sudo] password for avalith: 
avalith@avcomp:~$ sudo rmmod ssb
avalith@avcomp:~$ sudo echo "blacklist b43" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
bash: /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist: Permission denied
avalith@avcomp:~$ sudo su
avcomp:/home/avalith# echo "blacklist b43" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
avcomp:/home/avalith# echo "blacklist ssb" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
avcomp:/home/avalith# exit
exit
avalith@avcomp:~$ sudo ndiswrapper -l
bcmwl5 : driver installed
avalith@avcomp:~$ sudo ndiswrapper -e bcmwl5
avalith@avcomp:~$ sudo ndiswrapper -l
avalith@avcomp:~$ sudo ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf
installing bcmwl5 ...
forcing parameter IBSSGMode from 0 to 2
forcing parameter IBSSGMode from 0 to 2
forcing parameter IBSSGMode from 0 to 2
forcing parameter IBSSGMode from 0 to 2
avalith@avcomp:~$ sudo ndiswrapper -l
bcmwl5 : driver installed
avalith@avcomp:~$ sudo depmod -a
avalith@avcomp:~$ sudo modprobe ndiswrapper
avalith@avcomp:~$ sudo ndiswrapper -ma
module configuration information is stored in /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper

Still no go even with Wireless Tools.