[ATrpms-users] Latest ndiswrapper module problem?

[John Pierce]

I just update my lappy to the 2.6.22.4-65 kernel and installed the
latest ndiswrapper module, now when I bring up wlan0 I also get a
interface called wmaster0 and about minute my link stops working and I
have to do an ifdown wlan0 and then ifup wlan0 to get the connection
working again.

this is now the output of ifconfig

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:2290 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:2290 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:7224624 (6.8 MiB)  TX bytes:7224624 (6.8 MiB)

virbr0    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:00:00:00:00:00
          inet addr:192.168.122.1  Bcast:192.168.122.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::200:ff:fe00:0/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:468 (468.0 b)

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1A:73:14:51:A5
          inet addr:192.168.1.60  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::21a:73ff:fe14:51a5/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:263195 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:199301 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:341381690 (325.5 MiB)  TX bytes:91645537 (87.3 MiB)

wmaster0  Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr
00-1A-73-14-51-A5-E8-A1-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

This is a small snippet from dmesg:

ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready
wlan0: no IPv6 routers present
b43-phy0 ERROR: MAC suspend failed
b43-phy0 ERROR: PHY transmission error
wlan0: No ProbeResp from current AP 00:11:95:2c:26:02 - assume out of range
wlan0: No STA entry for own AP 00:11:95:2c:26:02
wlan0: No STA entry for own AP 00:11:95:2c:26:02
b43-phy0 debug: Removing Interface type 2
b43-phy0 debug: Wireless interface stopped
b43-phy0 debug: DMA-32 0x0200 (RX) max used slots: 3/64
b43-phy0 debug: DMA-32 0x02A0 (TX) max used slots: 0/128
b43-phy0 debug: DMA-32 0x0280 (TX) max used slots: 0/128
b43-phy0 debug: DMA-32 0x0260 (TX) max used slots: 0/128
b43-phy0 debug: DMA-32 0x0240 (TX) max used slots: 0/128
b43-phy0 debug: DMA-32 0x0220 (TX) max used slots: 128/128
b43-phy0 debug: DMA-32 0x0200 (TX) max used slots: 0/128
b43-phy0 debug: Radio turned off
b43-phy0 debug: Radio turned off
b43-phy0 debug: Adding Interface type 2
b43-phy0 debug: Loading firmware version 351.126 (2006-07-29 05:54:02)
b43-phy0 debug: Radio turned on
b43-phy0 debug: Radio enabled by hardware
b43-phy0 debug: Chip initialized
b43-phy0 debug: 32-bit DMA initialized
b43-phy0 debug: Wireless interface started
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
b43-phy0 debug: Using hardware based encryption for keyidx: 0, mac:
ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
wlan0: Initial auth_alg=0
wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:11:95:2c:26:02
wlan0: RX authentication from 00:11:95:2c:26:02 (alg=0 transaction=2 status=0)
wlan0: authenticated
wlan0: associate with AP 00:11:95:2c:26:02
wlan0: RX AssocResp from 00:11:95:2c:26:02 (capab=0x431 status=0 aid=2)
wlan0: associated
wlan0: switched to short barker preamble (BSSID=00:11:95:2c:26:02)
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready
wlan0: no IPv6 routers present
b43-phy0 ERROR: MAC suspend failed
b43-phy0 ERROR: PHY transmission error
b43-phy0 ERROR: MAC suspend failed
b43-phy0 ERROR: PHY transmission error

The machine is an HP DV9208NR with a dell 1390 wlan minipci broadcom

03:00.0 0280: 14e4:4311 (rev 01)
        Subsystem: 103c:1363
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
        Memory at b8000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
        Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
        Capabilities: [58] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit-
Queue=0/0 Enable-
        Capabilities: [d0] Express Legacy Endpoint IRQ 0

Any thoughts or assistance would be appreciated.

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