From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 16 06:09:52 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4622F16A4F6 for ; Tue, 16 May 2006 06:09:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: from sigma.octantis.com.au (ns2.octantis.com.au [207.44.189.124]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77CA843DE4 for ; Tue, 16 May 2006 06:09:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: (qmail 27628 invoked from network); 16 May 2006 16:09:43 +1000 Received: from andromeda.lef.com.au (HELO localhost) (210.8.93.2) by sigma.octantis.com.au with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 16 May 2006 16:09:43 +1000 Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 16:09:40 +1000 From: Norberto Meijome To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20060516160940.424e8354@localhost> In-Reply-To: <44695633.4030807@infowest.com> References: <44695633.4030807@infowest.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.2.0 (GTK+ 2.8.17; i386-portbld-freebsd6.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Does NDISulator work on amd64? Has anyone made this work? 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: Tue, 16 May 2006 06:09:55 -0000 On Mon, 15 May 2006 22:33:55 -0600 Lorin Lund 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