ndiswrapper: setting auth mode to 3 failed?? [Solved]

SavageHcky7 · n00b Joined: 24 Dec 2003 Posts: 34 Location: Texas

I am trying to get my laptop's wireless working again, but I cannot seem to. (It did work previously, and then I emerged something and now it doesn't...Grrr...)

ndiswrapper -l shows my driver, bcmw15.

The output of dmesg has a line which looks suspicious, but I don't know what to do about it (if anything)

ndiswrapper (set_auth_mode:653): setting auth mode to 3 failed (C0010015)

Can anyone offer any suggestions? They would be appreciated!

SavageHcky7 · n00b Joined: 24 Dec 2003 Posts: 34 Location: Texas

I think this error might be related to the iwpriv tool? I can generate the error message in the 'dmesg' output by entering:

#iwpriv wlan0 set_auth_mode 3

I immediately get the following response:

Interface doesn't accept private ioctl...
set_auth_mode (8BF6): Operation not permitted

And then the same dmesg statement as before.

I just re-emerged wireless-tools and ndiswrapper, but that did not seem to help.

Anyone have any suggestions?

SavageHcky7 · n00b Joined: 24 Dec 2003 Posts: 34 Location: Texas

Another part of the problem is that I cannot seem to set my wireless card into "Managed" mode. I try the following command,

#iwconfig wlan0 mode managed

but the output from just iwconfig still shows: Mode:Ad-Hoc

*sigh*.... :cry:

Ma3oxuct · Guru Joined: 18 Apr 2003 Posts: 523

I has a simular problem a while back...I found no work around or anything....I ended up using the new bc43xx driver that is integrated into kernels newer than 2.6.17. Of couse now my wireless is broken again due to aging firmware

SavageHcky7 · n00b Joined: 24 Dec 2003 Posts: 34 Location: Texas

Hooray! Wireless is back working! Not sure exactly what fixed the problem, but here is what I did.

emerge -C ndiswrapper
emerge -C wireless-tools

recompiled kernel, removing wireless networking device drivers not in my system (prism and hermes)

emerge ndiswrapper

Saw that it found the prior bcmwl5 driver was still recognized. So I removed it with 'ndiswrapper -e bcmwl5' and then installed it with 'ndiswrapper -i [path]/bcmwl5.inf

depmod -a
modprobe ndiswrapper
emerge wireless-tools
iwconfig wlan0 mode Managed key open XXXXXX essid ESSID
ifconfig wlan0 up
dhcpcd wlan0

And amazingly it is up and running!

I hope that this helps someone.

Ma3oxuct: Maybe I will attempt to use the integrated bcm43xx driver when I upgrade my kernel. I am currently running 2.6.16. Thanks for your reply!