From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 24 22:50:11 2010 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 7DE63106566B for ; Sat, 24 Jul 2010 22:50:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gautham@lisphacker.org) Received: from mail-qw0-f54.google.com (mail-qw0-f54.google.com [209.85.216.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A1558FC0A for ; Sat, 24 Jul 2010 22:50:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qwk3 with SMTP id 3so1162809qwk.13 for ; Sat, 24 Jul 2010 15:50:10 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.224.19.197 with SMTP id c5mr4353004qab.219.1280011810151; Sat, 24 Jul 2010 15:50:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.229.211.212 with HTTP; Sat, 24 Jul 2010 15:50:10 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20100724154644.75b1938b@scorpio> References: <20100724084204.597b9e6f@scorpio> <20100724154644.75b1938b@scorpio> Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 04:20:10 +0530 Message-ID: From: Gautham Ganapathy To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: 64-bit Windows XP NDIS drivers giving missing symbols 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: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 22:50:11 -0000 On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 1:16 AM, Jerry wrote: > On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 18:45:24 +0000 > Paul B Mahol articulated: > > > > On 7/24/10, Jerry wrote: > > > On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 12:01:24 +0000 > > > Paul B Mahol articulated: > > > > > >> Such symbols are completly irrelevant for normal operation, because > > >> NDISulator crash on amd64 during driver initialization. > > >> I fixed this in my own git repo, but "fpudna in kernel mode" (my > > >> understanding is that it is source of panic when trying to use ndis0 > > >> device on amd64), present only on amd64 is still not yet fixed - thi= s > > >> should be addressed with fpu_kern KPI available on CURRENT - not don= e > > >> yet... > > >> Feel free to send patches. > > > > > > I feel his pain. I need 64 bit drivers for cards that FBSD does not > > > support, mostly 'N' protocol wireless cards. The inability to secure > > > and use perfectly good drivers that are available for Windows users i= n > > > FreeBSD is a real PIA. Of course, it does give my Window user friends > > > something to laugh about. > > > > And bwn(4) doesn't work at all? > > > bwn -- Broadcom BCM43xx IEEE 802.11b/g wireless network driver > > > You will notice that there is no 'n' in the description. In any case, > it is limited to 'broadcom' chips. > > -- > Jerry =E2=9C=8C > FreeBSD.user@seibercom.net > Nope, bwn did not work. The man page mentioned a port that also had to be installed. It had two modules, which I put in loader.conf one at a time along with if_bwn.ko, but still no luck. The card I have has a Broadcom 4353 chipset. I think it is b/g/n. Regards Gautham