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cliff99 - 14.11.2006, 00:05 Uhr
Titel: Had ndiswrapper working ok. tried linuxant driver better but
Ok this is the problem,
I had ndiswrapper working ok but weak wireless compared to XP.
Thought i'd try the linuxant as I still have a registration for my machine.
Stronger wireless ok. Wireless working ok.
But when I reboot after removing ndiswrapper using apt-get now it hangs
at the booting where ndiswrapper loads. How can I stop this happening,
can't access my kanotix at all now.
can I disable ndiswrapper from the boot prompt?
Any help greatly appreciated.
Cliff
mdmarmer - 14.11.2006, 00:39 Uhr
Titel: try blacklist of ndiswrapper
From the live CD, you should be able to access your root partition
Add
blacklist ndiswrapper
to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist (as root)
Mike
cliff99 - 14.11.2006, 02:52 Uhr
Titel: RE: try blacklist of ndiswrapper
Thanks Mike,
Will give that a go. I tried the Broadcom driver but too unstable for me.
mdmarmer - 14.11.2006, 03:23 Uhr
Titel: RE: try blacklist of ndiswrapper
Note that the Broadcom native driver is a lot more stable with a new kernel -- I think 2.6.18 really helps
Mike
slh - 14.11.2006, 09:35 Uhr
Titel: RE: try blacklist of ndiswrapper
>=2.6.18.2 specifically, 2.6.18 and 2.6.18.1 had a few serious stability issues.
cliff99 - 15.11.2006, 07:14 Uhr
Titel: Re: try blacklist of ndiswrapper
mdmarmer hat folgendes geschrieben::
From the live CD, you should be able to access your root partition
Add
blacklist ndiswrapper
to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist (as root)
Mike
THanks Mike worked a treat. just got to figure out another problem where my machine locks up on boot sometimes othertimes ok.
cliff99 - 15.11.2006, 07:16 Uhr
Titel: Re: RE: try blacklist of ndiswrapper
slh hat folgendes geschrieben::
>=2.6.18.2 specifically, 2.6.18 and 2.6.18.1 had a few serious stability issues.
Maybe time to try the native again I think only B not G and not sure on WPA support.
cliff99 - 15.11.2006, 07:21 Uhr
Titel: RE: Re: RE: try blacklist of ndiswrapper
Anything special to get the native driver working, I am using latest 2.6.18.2 kernel. Noticed it is currently in my blacklisted modules.
Be great to get similar wireless performance as I can with that other operating system. I use linux 90+% of the time at home. I actually use vmware to run my needed windows programs. Works great for the small number I use.
cliff99 - 15.11.2006, 10:15 Uhr
Titel: RE: Re: RE: try blacklist of ndiswrapper
Thanks for everyones's help, have the Broadcom driver running with good strength if only B not G. WPA working ok too. Best signal so far 67% strength 100% quality according to the KDE toolbar applet
slh - 15.11.2006, 13:32 Uhr
Titel: RE: Re: RE: try blacklist of ndiswrapper
The signal strength reading for native bcm43xx is bogus until kernel 2.6.20 (fixed value), patches for that have recently been merged to wireless-dev, but it is correct that neither signal strength nor link speed completely match the expected values (I'm told that ndiswrapper woks better in that regard, but I never tested it with ndiswrapper).
That said, native bcm43xx is progressing quite well and is imho usable at its current state.
kelmo - 16.11.2006, 04:23 Uhr
Titel: RE: Re: RE: try blacklist of ndiswrapper
heh, ndiswrapper reports 100% signal strength at all times 
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/medi ... statistics
cliff99 - 16.11.2006, 07:54 Uhr
Titel: Re: RE: Re: RE: try blacklist of ndiswrapper
kelmo hat folgendes geschrieben::
heh, ndiswrapper reports 100% signal strength at all times
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/medi ... statistics
THis was for the native driver not niswrapper ndiswrapper for me did not report any where near 100%.
That said I now have stable wireless on my Dell 9100 equal to what I had on XP.
cliff99 - 16.11.2006, 23:42 Uhr
Titel: RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: try blacklist of ndiswrapper
Seems spoke too soon back with ndiswrapper the native one kept dropping out intermitently.
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