From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 14 05:59:41 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F223106564A for ; Mon, 14 Feb 2011 05:59:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gautham@lisphacker.org) Received: from mail-gx0-f182.google.com (mail-gx0-f182.google.com [209.85.161.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 065E08FC13 for ; Mon, 14 Feb 2011 05:59:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk8 with SMTP id 8so1980239gxk.13 for ; Sun, 13 Feb 2011 21:59:40 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.91.5.11 with SMTP id h11mr3914193agi.143.1297661500206; Sun, 13 Feb 2011 21:31:40 -0800 (PST) Sender: gautham@lisphacker.org Received: by 10.91.55.24 with HTTP; Sun, 13 Feb 2011 21:31:40 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 05:31:40 +0000 X-Google-Sender-Auth: g5emzbjux6XPEsMat_O1i-xUuOg Message-ID: From: Gautham Ganapathy To: freebsd-questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: Re: 64-bit Windows XP NDIS drivers giving missing symbols X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 05:59:41 -0000 On July 24, 2010 08:04AM, Paul B Mahol wrote: > On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 8:33 PM, Gautham Ganapathy wrote: >> Hi >> >> I have an Alienware m11x with a Dell 1520 wireless minicard (Broadcom >> BCM4353 chipset). It comes with only Windows 7 drivers, but I was able to >> download Windows XP drivers seperately. However, after I generate the kernel >> module (I am using the 64-bit WinXP driver and freebsd amd64), I get errors >> when I try to load it. It says that the following symbols are missing >> >> ZwQueryInformationFile >> ZwCreateFile >> ZwReadFile >> IoUnregisterPlugPlayNotification >> ExFreePoolWithTag >> >> According to MSDN, these were introduced in Windows 2000. >> >> Is there any way of getting this driver running ? > > Such symbols are completly irrelevant for normal operation, because > NDISulator crash on amd64 during driver initialization. > I fixed this in my own git repo, but "fpudna in kernel mode" (my > understanding is that it is source of panic when trying to use ndis0 > device on amd64), present only on amd64 is still not yet fixed - this > should be addressed with fpu_kern KPI available on CURRENT - not done > yet... > Feel free to send patches. > Hi Would these changes be available in 8.2-release? Regards Gautham PS - Sorry, I lost the original copy of the thread. Had to copy this from an archive.