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From: "Paul B. Mahol" <onemda@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: ndis panic HP pavilion ze4400 won't boot
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On 1/8/09, Neal Hogan <nealhogan@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm father new to fBSD. I hope this is the appropriate list to send this
> question to.
>
> I just installed 7.1-RELEASE on my HP pavilion and attempted to configure my
> Broadcom wlan card (BCM94309 version 4.10.40.0) using ndisgen. I cp'd the
> bcmwl5_sys.ko to /boot/kernel and added *bcmwl5_sys_load="YES"* to my
> /boot/loader.conf. Now the machine will not boot. It crashes when it reaches
> the ndis0 line. I've tried booting in all the modes but they all fail to
> boot. I can escape to prompt, but am unsure what, if anything, I can do in
> that mode to deal with the situation.
>
> With other releases (6.4 and 7.0) the machine would panick when I attempted
> to ifconfig ndis0. However, I was able to boot in single user mode and
> temporarily move the rc.conf file so that I cound boot in the default mode.
> With 7.1, I don't appear to have that option.
>
> Is there anything I can do, short of a fresh install, to eliminate this
> problem? I'm not too worried about getting the wifi up (although, I won't
> turn down any advice). I just want the machine to boot.

You can enter loader and from there unload bcmwl5_sys, type: unload bcmwl5_sys.
loader is started one step before kernel.

Before ever changing loader.conf you really should test it via kldload(1)
and report any ndis issues via PR.
>From where you fetched drivers and for what windows version?


-- 
Paul