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    Exclamation Installing Marvell TopDog (EC85) Driver on x64 Architecture

    HELP!!!!

    I have been trying for days to get my on-board wifi working for my Gateway M-6319 laptop. There are several posts describing how to get this to work, but none which are applicable to 64-bit architecture.

    Here are the sites that I've used and am 99% of the way done:

    1.) mt6456 marvell topdog 802.11n Wireless (EC85) Solved

    2.) Gateway M-6750 Marvell TOPDOG (EC85) Vista Driver Issue

    3.) DRIVER NEEDED: Marvell® Marvell TOPDOG PCI Express 802.n wireless (EC85) (Windows XP Professional)



    Here are the steps I've taken - with output:

    IN TERMINAL

    1) lspci -nn

    05:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Unknown device [11ab:2a08] (rev 03)

    -- I downloaded and installed the driver the Netgear WNR311T driver - wnr311t_setup_4_1.exe. Then I make a copy of netmw145.sys and rename it netme146.sys (as required in the 1st forum post)

    2) cd .wine/dosdevices/c:/Program\ Files/NETGEAR/WN311T

    3) sudo ndiswrapper -i NetMW14x.inf

    installing netmw14x ...

    4) sudo ndiswrapper -a 11ab:2a08 netmw14x

    WARNING: Driver 'netmw14x' will be used for '11AB:2A08'
    This is safe _only_ if driver netmw14x is meant for chip in device 11AB:2A08

    5) sudo ndiswrapper -l

    netmw14x : driver installed
    device (11AB:2A08) present

    6) sudo depmod -a

    -- No output

    7) sudo modprobe ndiswrapper

    -- No output, but still no wifi. So, I checked the network logs.

    8) sudo lshw -C Network

    *-network UNCLAIMED
    description: Ethernet
    product: Marvell Technology Group Ltd.
    vendor: Marvell Technology Group Ltd.
    physical id: 0
    bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
    version: 04
    width: 32 bits
    clock: 33MHz
    capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
    configuration: latency=0

    *-network
    description: Ethernet interface
    product: RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller
    vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
    physical id: 0
    bus info: pci@0000:06:00.0
    logical name: eth0
    version: 01
    serial: 00:e0:b8:e8:41:5b
    size: 10MB/s
    capacity: 100MB/s
    width: 64 bits
    clock: 33MHz
    capabilities: pm vpd msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
    configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=half latency=0 link=no module=r8169 multicast=yes port=MII speed=10MB/s

    *-network DISABLED
    description: Ethernet interface
    physical id: 2
    logical name: pan0
    serial: 0a:7b:eb:98:4e:9c
    capabilities: ethernet physical
    configuration: broadcast=yes driver=bridge driverversion=2.3 firmware=N/A link=yes multicast=yes

    -- I see that the my device is unclaimed, so I check the logs for the wlan drivers.

    9) dmesg | grep -e ndis -e wlan

    [ 2767.030327] ndiswrapper version 1.53 loaded (smp=yes, preempt=no)
    [ 2767.052613] ndiswrapper (check_nt_hdr:150): kernel is 64-bit, but Windows driver is not 64-bit;bad magic: 010B
    [ 2767.052629] ndiswrapper (load_sys_files:206): couldn't prepare driver 'netmw14x'
    [ 2767.055758] ndiswrapper (load_wrap_driver:108): couldn't load driver netmw14x; check system log for messages from 'loadndisdriver'

    --So then, upon reading the forums, I found that people who have x64 architecture have been using the WNR511T driver. I download, install and try to configure that. Same result.

    --Last, I download and install the driver topdog-drv10049.exe, which others have been using successfully in Windows. This time, the process is successfully completed, but then I have NO internet AT ALL. Not even through my USB stick (which I am using now). It does not come back until I remove the associated driver.



    I think the best solution is to use the x32 drivers on my x64 architecture. It has been done before! Someone in the first link made it work - they didn't explain their methods though.

    Can someone help me use the x32 WNR311T or WNR511T drivers on my x64 architecture?
    Last edited by ok123jump; April 24th, 2009 at 01:19 AM.

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    Re: Installing Marvell TopDog (EC85) Driver on x64 Architecture

    Anyone?

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    Re: Installing Marvell TopDog (EC85) Driver on x64 Architecture

    I don't want to keep bumping this, but I need help!

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    Re: Installing Marvell TopDog (EC85) Driver on x64 Architecture

    How about simply running 32 bit drivers on a 64-bit OS?

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    Re: Installing Marvell TopDog (EC85) Driver on x64 Architecture

    Help with running a 32-bit driver on x64 architecture!

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    Re: Installing Marvell TopDog (EC85) Driver on x64 Architecture

    I found 64-bit drivers for it, but haven't tried using them myself.

    http://support.gateway.com/support/d...20LAN%20Driver

    Let me know if you have any success.

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    Re: Installing Marvell TopDog (EC85) Driver on x64 Architecture

    Found 64bit XP marvell drivers here.. http://www.station-drivers.com/telec...4-vista-xp.exe

    says its valid for TOPDOG 802.11n/g/b Wireless (W8385-W8382).. they install fine thru ndiswrapper on ubuntu-studio amd64.. But im not getting a new device alias or any errors in dmesg.. I get this in dmesg:

    Code:
    [ 1900.682721] ndiswrapper version 1.53 loaded (smp=yes, preempt=rt)
    [ 1900.748364] usbcore: registered new interface driver ndiswrapper
    so... I'll update if I get it working.

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    Re: Installing Marvell TopDog (EC85) Driver on x64 Architecture

    Similar problem.

    The XP 64-bit TopDog driver doesn't exist. That Gateway driver ports the Vista-64 bit driver back onto XP-64. It's still an NDIS6 driver. We need one that's NDIS5, or for Ndiswrapper to finally upgrade their support - that page of their wiki hasn't updated in over a year.
    Last edited by ZazzyE; February 9th, 2011 at 08:10 PM.

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