Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 16:09:40 +1000 From: Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Does NDISulator work on amd64? Has anyone made this work? Message-ID: <20060516160940.424e8354@localhost> In-Reply-To: <44695633.4030807@infowest.com> References: <44695633.4030807@infowest.com>
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On Mon, 15 May 2006 22:33:55 -0600 Lorin Lund <wbs@infowest.com> wrote: > I have a Compac Presario V2607CL notebook with a Turion chip. I have > 6.1-RELEASE for amd64 loaded. > It is running fine. But I'm trying toget the built in Broadcom wireless > working. > > I downloaded the driver from hp.com. The .INF file was over 600K but > most of that was multiple language > support. (The INF file was in UNICODE). I hacked out all the strings > for languages I wasn't interested in and > the whole thing shrunk down to around 47K after I stored it as text > rather than as UNICODE. > > After thus fixing up the INF file ndiscvt had no complaint and created a > header file. The make on the > kernel module proceeded without error messages. There is now an > "ndis.ko" file in /boot/kernel. > > But when I do > ifconfig ndis0 > I get an error message saying that there is no ndis0 interface. I don't > know what my next step should be. Hi Lorin, you may want to ask in freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org regards, Beto
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