[NBLUG/talk] ndis wireless configuration

[Troy Arnold]

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 09:14:13PM -0700, steven smith wrote:
> 
> ndiswrapper -l says
>    device (14e4:4311) present (alternate driver: bcm43xx)
> 
> the system->administration->Windows Wireless Drivers
> interface says
>   bcmwl5
>      Hardware present: Yes
> 
> I did a grep of /var/log/messages for ndis and found
> ndiswrapper: driver version 1.45 loaded (smp=yes)
> ndiswrapper: driver bcmw15 (Broadcom,10/12/2006) loaded
> usbcore: registered new interface driver ndiswrapper
> ndiswrapper: changing interface name from 'wlan0' to 'eth1'

Do you have both the ndiswrappper driver loaded and a native kernel driver?
(bcmw15 vs. bcm43xx ?)

Try rmmod bcm43xx, and if that works, add it to something like:
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-wifi

'lsmod' will show you which driver is actually in use:

somemod                11392  1 
somemod2               41880  0

The zero in the last column shows that the fictional module, 'somemod2' is
not attached to any device.

-t