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Date:      Thu, 22 Jun 2006 12:42:56 -0500
From:      "Scot Hetzel" <swhetzel@gmail.com>
To:        "Patrick Bowen" <pbowen@fastmail.fm>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: if_ndis for Marvell
Message-ID:  <790a9fff0606221042y539804atd2e12594595163c2@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <44989B07.6080404@fastmail.fm>
References:  <449862F4.7090207@fastmail.fm> <20060621000056.GA13097@cdnetworks.co.kr> <44989B07.6080404@fastmail.fm>

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On 6/20/06, Patrick Bowen <pbowen@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
>
> >On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 04:04:52PM -0500, Patrick Bowen wrote:
> > > Hello:
> > >
> > >    I have two questions.
> > >
> > >    The first regards support for the Broadcom BCM94318 wireless LAN
> > > adapter. When trying to compile the module for if_ndis using bcmwl5.inf
> > > and bcmwl5.sys, I get the following error;
> > >
> > >        In file included from
> > > /usr/src/sys/modules/if_ndis/../../dev/if_ndis/if_ndis.c:66:
> > >        @/sys/bus.h:461:23: device_if.h: No such file or directory
> > >        @/sys/bus.h:462:20: bus_if.h: No such file or directory
> > >        In file included from
> > > /usr/src/sys/modules/if_ndis/../../dev/if_ndis/if_ndis.c:75:
> > >        @/dev/pci/pcivar.h:165:20: pci_if.h: No such file or directory
> > >
> > > Have these three files been removed from the source tree?
> > >
> Thanks! That takes care of the wired connection. Now all I have to do is
> get the wireless to work.
>
> Regarding the original subject line, the "ndis" was, of course, for the
> Broadcom device. I tried a different .inf file after googling some more
> (bcmwl5a.inf), and this time I was able to produce an if_ndis.ko file. I
> loaded both the ndis.ko and if_ndis.ko modules, but got nothing...zip,
> zilch, zero. Nothing in dmesg, nothing in ifconfig...I must still be
> doing something wrong...
>

Did you use ndisgen to build the NDIS bcmwl5_sys.ko kernel module from
the windows driver?

bcmwl5_sys.ko is what you need to load to get your wireless card to
work with the NDIS module.

Scot

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