Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 17:18:20 +0100 (CET) From: "Carsten Zimmermann" <carp@hacksocke.de> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: NDISulator and Dell wireless 1350 MiniPCI Message-ID: <51130.212.202.153.78.1107533922.squirrel@www.aegisnet.biz>
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Hi there, I can hardly imagine that this problem hasn't been (discussed|solved) before, but as google showed up with nothing, I'll go this way... I have aquired a Dell Insprion 1150 with a Dell wireless 1350 MiniPCI 11g card. I have compiled and loaded the ndis.ko and also the if_ndis.ko. The driver loads successfully and the interface ndis0 appears. However, I cannot change any ifconfig values through ifconfig. The interface ndis0 ignores every setting. `sysctl -a |grep ndis0` returns no entries, so changing preferences via sysctl is also not possible. I used the recent Dell drivers from their website (R83097.EXE), expanded the selfextracting archive through wine and found two(!) *.inf and *.sys files. I don't exactly know which drivers to chose, there were subdirs called "AR" and "IR" with same contents (well they do differ in filesize). I tried both drivers. The *.inf file is a utf-16 little endian file, as file(1) told me. `iconv -f UTF-16LE -t ASCII` couldn't convert, so what I did was deleting the blurb of UTF-16 locale strings out of the file and conversion went to a success. I don't know if this might have caused the problem I am encountering. Has anyone some hints or succes stories for me? Thanks a lot! - Carsten -- Carsten Zimmermann // GERMANY // PGP: http://hacksocke.de/public_key.asc
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