Inspiron 5150 problem with Kernel2.4.22

Question

Hi,

I have a Dell Inspriron 5150 laptop (BIOS rev. A26), which works quite well with Debian unstable.

Currently I'm running a 2.4.22 Kernel with ethernet driver from Broadcom (bcm4400) and display driver from nvidia.

So far so good, but I would like to upgrade the Kernel because Ndiswrapper (which is used to load windows drivers for the wireless lan card) requires 2.4.23 and above.

Unfortunatly those kernels won't work well with my notebook. All show the same behavior:
1) usb module tries to assign an address to usb memory stick but this
address is not accepted.
2) The bcm4400 broadcom driver can be loaded without any problem. when the ethernet interface starts up, I can see a DHCP request on my lan, but the interface cannot receive the DHCP offer or any other packet.
(btw same behavior with b44 kernel module)

I haven't tried more, but I expect more such strange things.

Does anybody has an idea, what's reason for those problem, or even know a
solution?

Thanks,

Torsten

jmpocheau · Answer

Hi, Torsten,

I have the same problem.

I try to install the new Mandrake 10.0, and I had to downgrade to a 2.4 kernel

instead of a 2.6.

With this limitation, I have been able to install Mandrake.

Best regards

Jean-Marc

grubilar · Answer

Hi,

same kind of problems here with MDK 10.0 CE (Dell Inspiron 5150, 1Gb RAM, 64 MB Nvidia card). I had to boot the 2.4.?? kernel because the 2.6.? gave me a lot of problems. I issued a bug report on qa.mandrakesoft.com. I hope these problems get some attention.

Any success with the wireless card and Ndiswrapper?

Guillermo

THartmann · Answer

Hi,

so obviously this not a distribution related problem (I tried kernel 2.4.23, 2.4.25 and 2.6.4? build from source from kernel.org)

Unfortunatly running kernel 2.4.22 I cannot try Ndiswrapper (at least 2.4.23 :-( is needed)!

Does anybody is able to use USB or Ethernet with a kernel above 2.4.22?

Torsten

Mandrake99 · Answer

Granted I have a I5100 and not a 5150, but I'm presently running Mandrake 10CE and have everything working (except the modem, which I haven't bothered with). Try not to flame me too much, but I'm running the 2.6 kernel and the wireless truemobile 1300 is working great. I tryed the ndiswrapper and it will not function al all, I can see the card but nothing... I then went to the paid method 19 usd for the Linuxant Driverloader. I had to compile it for the 2.6 kernel it shows up in iwconfig as the Broadcom chip but under Mandrake hardware it shows up as Intel 845 PCI?? It works great.

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