From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 23 17:52:44 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6278A16A400 for ; Wed, 23 May 2007 17:52:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erazorbg@gmail.com) Received: from mu-out-0910.google.com (mu-out-0910.google.com [209.85.134.187]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E86F113C48A for ; Wed, 23 May 2007 17:52:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erazorbg@gmail.com) Received: by mu-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id w8so213177mue for ; Wed, 23 May 2007 10:52:42 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=EB3GynjcH33YEEAppUGlg8I9DogYoMnEzKoZQgjFk0SkIZt5L4qAjAdgeO8eyu2PbhAoxjBhNUqMKrDY5fUjWdddw+v34ULGZOjtmHo7W1bSXMhvmQHdStElo8QzVgM/TK0oMEMwbbYyPJP9UBocCNfUw+OCbVWQaY1RXpRIk5k= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Lrbf/MkLeFJGHF3c7hCEoqHpYl1VW+rkuflEz3zPtu4t7akBTs4iUi+eo7jIRUHZIj7jiEOOxhf+yZqzQ6xNIS68IV6addrTz0p6cNjMkwOx5ZgXsuRJkcFy3vXInri8IUTvCqwqx6sCHww/7xvpzYXm4ypQYz8YeZNhPCXnaP4= Received: by 10.82.118.2 with SMTP id q2mr1436747buc.1179938306718; Wed, 23 May 2007 09:38:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.82.191.1 with HTTP; Wed, 23 May 2007 09:38:26 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <7cc8007f0705230938i1a8d3542ra43172e0ac5147ed@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 19:38:26 +0300 From: "Dimiter Ivanov" To: "Dan Sikorsky" In-Reply-To: <4654682E.6010204@cupid.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <4654682E.6010204@cupid.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NDIS troubles / broad com WIFI 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: Wed, 23 May 2007 17:52:44 -0000 On 5/23/07, Dan Sikorsky wrote: > Hello, > I have a dell latitude x300 laptop, with the broadcom BCM4309 mini pci > wireless card. > > I have tried ndising it... first having problems with syntax on line 13, > and converting from utf into ascii, trying different driver versions etc. > > It seems I always get to this point. > where you: > kldload ndis > kldload if_ndis > > > if i load one, i cannot load the other, says file exists, and my > wireless card does not show up > > I than tried a netgear wireless card, that i have sucessfully ndis'd on > ubunto on an old compaq laptop.. > > For the latest example i followed these instructions to the T > http://dannyman.toldme.com/2005/01/05/freebsd-howto-ndisulate-windows-drivers/ > > but same problem > and no ndis showing up in dmesg or ifconfig > > > am I missing somthing? > do i need to enable somthing in my kernal, or disable acpi? > > any clues? > > I've read about there being a million different broadcom drivers,.. but > i couldnt even get it to work on my netgear, This example is old. Don't use ndiscvt use ndisgen. It will detect and convert the inf file automaticaly if it is not ascii. Then you will have a file named "bcmwl5_sys.ko" if the sys file was bcmwl5.sys, then try kldload bcmwl5_sys.ko and see what happens.