From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 16 14:02:58 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 D86C116A40E for ; Tue, 16 May 2006 14:02:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) Received: from ns1.jnielsen.net (ns1.jnielsen.net [69.55.238.237]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56CD543D45 for ; Tue, 16 May 2006 14:02:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) Received: from localhost (jn@ns1 [69.55.238.237]) (authenticated bits=0) by ns1.jnielsen.net (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id k4GE2tQN011282; Tue, 16 May 2006 07:02:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) From: John Nielsen To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 10:01:54 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <44695633.4030807@infowest.com> In-Reply-To: <44695633.4030807@infowest.com> X-Face: #X5#Y*q>F:]zT!DegL3z5Xo'^MN[$8k\[4^3rN~wm=s=Uw(sW}R?3b^*f1Wu*.<=?utf-8?q?of=5F4NrS=0A=09P*M/9CpxDo!D6?=)IY1w<9B1jB; tBQf[RU-R<,I)e"$q7N7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200605161001.55107.lists@jnielsen.net> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.88, clamav-milter version 0.87 on ns1.jnielsen.net X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: Lorin Lund 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 14:02:59 -0000 On Tuesday 16 May 2006 00:33, 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. Since you're using FreeBSD 6.x, make sure you use ndisgen instead of running ndiscvt manually. That said, I haven't ever played with amd64 and don't know if ndis is supported / functional on that platform. Let us know what you find out! JN