Bugzilla Bug 156265

This is a questionable bug considering that ndiswrapper-1.29 builds & installs
correctly. However, consider the following: ndiswrapper-1.29 will not accept
the amd64 bcmwl5.inf driver (see attachment). The driver fails & shows as
"invalid." This same bcmwl5.inf driver installs & runs correctly with
ndiswrapper-1.28. I can find no documentation stating that this driver will no
longer work with the 1.29 upgrade. Should a bug be filed upstream? 



06:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g]
802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)



ndiswrapper: using IRQ 50
wlan0: vendor: ''
wlan0: ethernet device 00:14:a5:bd:1f:4e using NDIS driver bcmwl5,
14E4:4318.5.conf
wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP; TKIP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK; AES/CCMP
with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK
usbcore: registered new driver ndiswrapper
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready
wlan0: no IPv6 routers present


Portage 2.1.2_rc2-r2 (default-linux/amd64/2006.1, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.5-r0,
2.6.18-gentoo-r3 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.18-gentoo-r3 x86_64 AMD Turion(tm) 64 Mobile Technology ML-34
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.6
Last Sync: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 00:02:01 +0000
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.30
dev-lang/python:     2.4.4
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r6
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10
sys-devel/binutils:  2.17
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.14
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.17-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config
/usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/lib64/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/X11/xkb
/usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf
/etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer sandbox
sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://node0 http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo"
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress
--force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180
--exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="amd64 X acpi alsa apache2 arts berkdb bitmap-fonts bmpx bzip2 cli cracklib
crypt cups dbus divx dlloader dri dvd dvdr dvdread elibc_glibc encode ffmpeg
flac fortran gdbm gif gimp gmedia gnutls gphoto2 gpm gtk hal iconv imagemagic
input_devices_evdev input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse
input_devices_synaptics ipv6 isdnlog java jpeg kde kernel_linux libg++
lm_sensors logrotate moznoirc moznomail moznoroaming mp3 mp4 ncurses nls nptl
nptlonly nsplugin objc objc++ offensive opengl pam pcre pdf pengl perl png ppds
pppd python qt3 quicktime readline realmedia reflection ruby session spell spl
ssl stream tcpd truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb userland_GNU vcd
video_cards_radeon wifi wmp xorg xvid zlib"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS,
PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

Created an attachment (id=102730) [details]
driver in question

I can confirm this bug. I have the same problem with the Broadcom driver on my
amd64 system.

As discussed in this forum thread: 

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-518603-highlight-ndiswrapper.html

the .sys file is not copied into the /etc/ndiswrapper subdirectory.

(In reply to comment #3)
> As discussed in this forum thread: 
> 
> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-518603-highlight-ndiswrapper.html
> 
> the .sys file is not copied into the /etc/ndiswrapper subdirectory.
> 

True, the .SYS file also needs to be renamed to lower-case letters or it will
fail. As long as they are aware of the file generating process error, we should
see a patch soon. :)

(In reply to comment #4)
> 
> True, the .SYS file also needs to be renamed to lower-case letters or it will
> fail. As long as they are aware of the file generating process error, we should
> see a patch soon. :)
> 
> 

Yeah and such there is not much we can do than to wait for new upstream
version.

After emerge ndiswrapper file /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/bcmwl564.sys is missing
but /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/bcmwl5.inf is present. I've manually copied
bcmwl564.sys file into /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5 subdirectory and it's working
for me. File name and extension are already lowercase. It appears on my amd64
notebook.

Do you still have problems with 1.32?

(In reply to comment #7)
> Do you still have problems with 1.32?
> 

1.32 works correctly for me. 

(In reply to comment #8)
> (In reply to comment #7)
> > Do you still have problems with 1.32?
> > 
> 
> 1.32 works correctly for me. 
> 

Closing.