Ndiswrapper causes major slowdown ob HP Pav illion zv5000 (5383EA) with 64bit broadcom netbc564 driver

Bug #24520 reported by Andy Brook
8
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
linux-source-2.6.15 (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Medium
Brian Murray

Bug Description

Firstly, I have a fully working ndiswrapper configuration with the 64bit windows
netbc564 driver. This problem relates to what happens when such a configuration
is present and I reboot.

If I reboot with a running configuration, the machine slows to a crawl to boot,
the 'events/0' process takes up 90%+ CPU and it can take 20minutes or more to
boot (this is a 64bit 2.2GHz machine!). During boot there is a kernel message
indicating that something is hogging resources. This renders the machine unusable.

The workaround is to rip-out the configuration on boot time, by modifying
/etc/init.d/linux-restricted-modules-common which is run VERY early on with the
following:

> /usr/sbin/ndiswrapper -e netbc564 >/dev/null

This causes a few errors in the log when the the wireless network interface is
started but stops the condition from appearing. In order to 'enable' the
interface I've written a startup script, but haven't been able to get it 'auto
loading' without causing this problem, so its a post-boot, post-login solution,
which actually works fine, so I only enable wireless when I need it, saving power.

Something is going nuts in ndiswrapper during the initial module load and
configuration of devices...

Ill add my startup script for info, it took me a while to work out what I had to
do to get it running

Tags: amd64 wireless
Revision history for this message
Andy Brook (axb) wrote :

Created an attachment (id=4754)
Startup script for wireless

Registers the driver with ndiswrapper and causes the interface to become
live...

Revision history for this message
Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote :

Is this still a problem in current Dapper?

Changed in ndiswrapper:
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

We are closing this bug report as it lacks the information, described in the previous comments, we need to investigate the problem further. However, please reopen it if you can give us the missing information and feel free to submit bug reports in the future.

Changed in linux-source-2.6.15:
assignee: nobody → brian-murray
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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