[Possible Spam]::Re: Colony 4: wifi problems on HP laptop

[Alvin Thompson]

with my AMD sempron laptop, if i use the stock 386 kernel my network 
card/ndiswrapper works fine. but if i use the K7 kernel i have problems 
with wifi being sporadic and sometimes lockups. i think there's an 
ndiswrapper-sources package in world; why don't you try building 
ndiswrapper specifically for your kernel to see if that helps.

also, i'm not sure the kernel options are compiled into the kernel, but 
you might want to verify that the 4k stack option is NOT used (if it's 
relevant for amd64, i don't know). i think i remember reading somewhere 
that this gives some ndiswrapper-wrapped drivers problems. as a last 
resort, you can try to 'roll your own' kernel to see if that helps.

hth,
alvin


Jimmie Houchin wrote:
> An update.
> 
> I don't have any idea what is happening, but...
> 
> My eth0 has worked on this machine. So I was able to connect to the net
> via cable to my router. Which is how I posted the message.
> 
> I have been updating 2-3 times a day hoping that an upate would come
> thru which would fix whatever kept wifi from working. Nothing. :(
> 
> So this morning I restarted (it crashed overnight) and deciced to edit
> the kernel boot parameters. I added no_apic to the line. And booted.
> 
> I tried the standard:
> iwconfig wlan0 essid *****
> dhclient wlan0
> 
> and it worked. Woohoo!
> 
> But it was a very unstable setup. It crashed in a matter of minutes. :(
> So I restarted normally. And as per due diligence, I attempted my wifi.
> And it worked. Woohoo!
> 
> I don't know why but I've changed nothing that I know of other than a
> single startup of no_apic and successful wifi connection. Then it is
> working on normal startup.
> 
> Now I do get lots of APIC errors in dmesg
> 
> I don't know what the deal is but it is up and running currently.
> 
> Jimmie
> 
> 
> Jimmie Houchin wrote:
> 
>>I have just installed Ubuntu Colony 4 on my HP zv6131us laptop.
>>Before this installed I had an uptodate Breezy install.
>>
>>I wanted to give the new CD and installer a try and see if any of the
>>issues were resolved.
>>
>>Unfortunately no.
>>
>>At  http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=273498
>>I post of my previous success in getting Ubuntu running on this machine.
>>
>>With the Colony 4 CD I still had to do it all over again.
>>
>>Unfortunately, the wifi isn't working. Ugh!
>>
>>I compiled the same ndiswrappers (and also the latest 1.3rc1).
>>I compiled the exact same driver.
>>
>>Everything seems to be installed fine.
>>
>>ndiswrapper -l
>>bcmwl5  driver present, hardware present
>>
>>iwconnfig
>>wlan0     IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:"milagronet"
>>          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.442 GHz  Access Point: 00:13:10:E3:F2:FB
>>          Bit Rate=54 Mb/s   Tx-Power:25 dBm
>>          RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
>>          Encryption key:off
>>          Power Management:off
>>          Link Quality:100/100  Signal level:-66 dBm  Noise level:-256 dBm
>>          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
>>          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0
>>
>>
>>dhclient wlan0
>>There is already a pid file /var/run/dhclient.pid with pid 0
>>Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.2
>>Copyright 2004 Internet Systems Consortium.
>>All rights reserved.
>>For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP
>>
>>sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
>>sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
>>Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:90:4b:f5:96:b3
>>Sending on   LPF/wlan0/00:90:4b:f5:96:b3
>>Sending on   Socket/fallback
>>DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3
>>DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3
>>DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
>>DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10
>>DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 21
>>DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9
>>DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11
>>No DHCPOFFERS received.
>>No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.
>>
>>/etc/network/interfaces  contains:
>>
>>auto wlan0
>>iface wlan0 inet dhcp
>>
>>I do the same thing I've done successfully for the last month, but
>>unsuccessfully.
>>
>>In a term window.
>>sudo iwconfig wlan0 essid ******
>>sudo dhclient wlan0
>>
>>
>>I went from a working setup to a non-working setup in a matter of an
>>hour or so.
>>
>>I hope I don't have to reinstall Colony2 and update, just to get my wifi
>>working again.
>>
>>Any help greatly appreciated.
>>
>>Jimmie
>>
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