Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 17:21:56 -0800 (PST) From: "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6724@bellsouth.net> To: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Cc: Toomas Aas <toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: egrep in /usr/sbin/ndisgen Message-ID: <689187.36744.bm@smtp111.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> References: <20131210224212.11531v3ymtj51n7o@webmail.raad.tartu.ee> <CAJ-Vmo=ZO9aTMjaD0aZ8f-7CbTqLrYUkrHE3%2Bvpx2-6jDDYtiQ@mail.gmail.com>
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from Toomas AAS:
> I'm trying to generate a NDIS-wrapped driver for my USB WiFi adapter
> that is not directly supported by FreeBSD. I've tried various versions
> of Windows driver, but ndisgen doesn't like any of the INF files: "I
> don't recognize this file format. It may not be a valid .INF file."
> The INF file validation that is performed by /usr/sbin/ndisgen is:
> ${EGREP} -i -c "Signature|.S.i.g.n.a.t.u.r.e" ${INFPATH}
> I tried this on the latest INF file at hand, and indeed it returns zero:
> $ egrep -i -c "Signature|.S.i.g.n.a.t.u.r.e" netr28ux.inf
> However:
> $ egrep -i -c ".S.i.g.n.a.t.u.r.e" netr28ux.inf
1
> So, why does the first egrep not match if the second one matches?
> My OS version is 9.2-STABLE amd64
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> Toomas
I had a problem of ndisgen not recognizing the .INF file simply because of the lack of a carriage return (ASCII 13) at the end.
So I opened vi, added a carriage return at the end. Or was it the other way around?
Then I was able to generate the NDIS-wrapped kernel module for 9.2_STABLE amd64 and also 9.1_STABLE i386.
But this failed to connect to network.
This was enough to make me remove NDIS support from my config for 10-STABLE and 11-HEAD.
Good part is that I finally managed to make the wireless connection with Hiro H50191 USB adapter, chipset RSU8191SU, device rsu in FreeBSD 10-STABLE and 11-HEAD. dhclient succeeded but slower than with a working Ethernet/wired connection.
Perhaps what went wrong previously, why I was unable to connect, was wrong software commands or failing Netgear router.
Now I use TP-Link TL-WR841N router, which I bought on my own.
Tom
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