wlan0 not ready (WAS Re: ath_pci, ndiswrapper & blacklist)

[Derek Broughton]

Ed Jabbour wrote:

> On Wednesday 25 June 2008 10:09:00 Derek Broughton wrote:
>> Ed Jabbour wrote:
>> > Trying to setup wireless with an Atheros chipset - ar242x.  Got
>> > ndiswrapper
>> > and setup went w/ no error messages.  However, ndiswrapper -l shows
>> > ath_pci
>> > as an "alternate driver".  I blacklisted ath_pci and ath_hal and
>> > uninstalled
>> > the restricted drivers.  There is no ath_anything loaded.  Where is
>> > that alternate driver coming from, and how do I stop it?
>>
>> You dont need to. I run a Broadcom driver under ndiswrapper, and
>> ndiswrapper tells me that bcm43xx is an alternate driver, it is
>> blacklisted, and everything works.  ndis tells you that the alternate
>> driver _exists_ it doesn't say it's using it, afaik
> 
> OK.  dmesg has the right messages regarding ndiswrapper and the driver
> (net5211)  except for the following:
> 
>  ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready

I _always_ get one of those, initially.  It doesn't mean much except that
the link _isn't_ ready.  Of course, in a little while it _should_ be ready. 
I guess yours isn't :(  Since my only atheros card was detected and worked
out of the box, I can't help there.
> 
> I thought the reason was that ath_pci, but if that's not the problem, then
> it isn't.  

If ath_pci isn't showing up with "lsmod | grep ath_pci", then the fact that
ndiswrapper says it's an alternate driver doesn't matter.

-- 
derek