Description of problem: I have a Presarion R3000 laptop with a Broadcom wireless card. Since there is no support by them, I have installed ndiswrapper to handle it. The drivers I am using are from linuxant's website. Now the problem. Everything works all right up to where the card is listed when I use iwconfig. Now I try to use FC3's network config tool. It dosn't detect is as wireless, why? So I added it as other and chose some random hardware from the list. When I try to active it, it says: "Link not found. Check cable?" So next I try to bring it up manually. I do iwconfig essid dunco key s:my-key. Key is set, but not the ESSID. So I replaced it with key open s:mykey and it worked. Then I do ifconfig eth1 up and it freezes. Later when playing with it in console, I find that there is a kernel panic. To copy&paste it, I try connecting in from another computer and running it. Everything works without a problem, but still no internet. I have gotten the IP, but it's useless. This is what dhclient did: [root@zorka ~]# dhclient eth1 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.1 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/eth1/00:90:4b:97:ea:58 Sending on LPF/eth1/00:90:4b:97:ea:58 Sending on Socket/fallback DHCPREQUEST on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 DHCPREQUEST on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 DHCPREQUEST on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5 DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 14 DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 21 DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 16 DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5 No DHCPOFFERS received. Trying recorded lease 10.15.10.20 PING 10.15.10.254 (10.15.10.254) 56(84) bytes of data. --- 10.15.10.254 ping statistics --- 1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 1.782/1.782/1.782/0.000 ms, pipe 2 SIOCADDRT: File exists bound: renewal in 29677 seconds. So since I have no kernel panic text, I just took a picture of it (attached). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): CVS and 1.0-r4 How reproducible: All the time when not doing remotly. Steps to Reproduce: 1.modprobe ndiswrapper 2.iwconfig eth1 essid dunco key open s:my-key 3.ifconfig eth1 up Actual results: Kernel Panic Expected results: eth1 interface brought up Additional info: #/etc/modprobe.conf options ndisdriver if_name=eth1 kernel: 2.6.10-fc3-730 with symatics patch & 2.6.10-fc3-730 no patches
Created attachment 110707 [details] Kernel Panic
Are you using a completely stock FC3 kernel (i.e. not a linuxant kernel nor a custom compiled kernel)? If so this is known to cause problems with ndiswrapper because of the 4K Stacks option and turning this option off will automatically invalidate bugs you file in this bugzilla. The best option is probably to ask for help from the ndiswrapper folks (http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/support.html ) or the fedora-list mailing list (http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list ). Unfortunately because you are running non-stock FC3 kernel modules coupled with binary only bits no one here will be able to follow up your report.
This is not a bug in the Fedora stack... please consult with the ndiswrapper authors.