From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 31 01:00:01 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34E4216A417 for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 01:00:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glen.j.barber@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.234]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE6C913C478 for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 01:00:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glen.j.barber@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i29so474647wxd.7 for ; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:00:00 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=EwF4+jw2hq/AypwApWLdxj3VggAFK7AXifAYUhNqm1w=; b=u5Wmh47jSs9L7ip3F/UpuKz2Rg2rqJFKbT6nAukp2asPO/aDE0WESLSm83Iudjl8HcuqyUUPccMT9HHeTqOssJsflXDxqG91ewZKxoOxmJzq5OPeA7hAiX1rq6PE5tCDRhWhuDg/adlfTTE/yxfHSZVQUM9l1idTqKAtc+EpSwU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=teTH61Ab68CnY3iS5uJG4m8bpKpbTj1yQaat5M6JNtJapq/eRfwJxu91sO/38+HjVOE3eZI7NIleiz306ZLKYeIDMmidrHcD/18NJZulxFXGHKnfzAeDLMhnzGX4OhrmQlCRdsjLK1cVeMVVBJdlCHVVA8aa/YZkYnZxgaQRK+c= Received: by 10.142.132.2 with SMTP id f2mr858973wfd.87.1201741199307; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:59:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.1.4? ( [24.229.62.9]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id h36sm594835wxd.29.2008.01.30.16.59.58 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:59:58 -0800 (PST) From: Glen Barber To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:59:55 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <47A113EB.4080204@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <47A113EB.4080204@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200801301959.55079.glen.j.barber@gmail.com> Subject: Re: broadcom wireless card on FB7 using ndisgen, no ndis0 after kldload 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: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 01:00:01 -0000 On Wednesday 30 January 2008 07:18:51 pm Kemian Dang wrote: > I have a laptop which using the broadcom wireless card. > I download the bcmwl5a.inf/.sys and use ndisgen to generate the .ko > file, then I kldload it as the doc said. > I can see ndis,if_ndis and bcmwl using kldstat, but there are no ndis0 > when ifconfig. > I have tried add the bcmwl to the /boot/loader.conf, but still no ndis0. > And there no message in the dmesg about the ndis. > Did you copy the bcmxxx.ko file to /book/kernel/ ? If you did, make sure you have an entry in your /boot/loader.conf: bcmxxx_load="YES" I have my bcm driver called 'bcmwl5_sys.ko' and 'bcmwl5_sys_load="YES" in my /boot/loader.conf. Hope that helps -- Glen Barber