Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 19:48:36 +0000 (GMT) From: wpaul@FreeBSD.ORG (Bill Paul) To: Mh@kernel32.de (Marian Hettwer) Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: if_ndis for Intel Pro/Wireless 2011B Message-ID: <20040824194836.78A8616A4EC@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <412B37C9.3020502@kernel32.de> from Marian Hettwer at "Aug 24, 2004 02:42:49 pm"
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> Hi All, > > as this card is not supported by wi(4), I thought giving it a try via > if_ndis. > I followed the instructions of Bill Paul: > # cp foo.sys foo.inf /sys/modules/if_ndis > # cd /sys/modules/ndis > # make; make load > # cd /sys/modules/if_ndis > # ndiscvt -i foo.inf -s foo.sys -o ndis_driver_data.h > # make; make load > > But something went wrong... > ([root@ares] </usr/src/sys/modules/if_ndis>)# /usr/sbin/ndiscvt -i > NetWLan5.Inf -s NetWLan5.sys -o ndis_driver_data.h > ndiscvt: line 11: NT: syntax error. > > So... there I'm stuck. All the other steps before ndiscvt went fine. > I got the Intel drivers from the intel website. "The Intel website" is very big. It takes a tiny amount of effort for you to show us what URL you used when you downloaded the driver and it saves me a lot of time. > As a co-worker of mine > informed me, they are working under WinXP. > As Intel is giving out those drivers in a crappy .exe file, I used wine > to execute this windows binary, and see, I got the .inf and .sys - hope > this is okay. > > Well... does somebody has an idea what the error of ndiscvt tries to > tell me ? :) No, because you didn't bother to provide copies of the .inf and .sys files so we could examine them. -Bill -- ============================================================================= -Bill Paul (510) 749-2329 | Senior Engineer, Master of Unix-Fu wpaul@windriver.com | Wind River Systems ============================================================================= <adamw> you're just BEGGING to face the moose =============================================================================
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