Ndiswrapper causes major slowdown ob HP Pav illion zv5000 (5383EA) with 64bit broadcom netbc564 driver
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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linux-source-2.6.15 (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Medium
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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.
following:
> /usr/sbin/
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
Created an attachment (id=4754)
Startup script for wireless
Registers the driver with ndiswrapper and causes the interface to become
live...