Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 01:13:06 +0300 From: "Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri" <almarrie@gmail.com> To: "Marcin Simonides" <marcin@studio4plus.com> Cc: freebsd-drivers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NDIS: intel 4965 panic Message-ID: <499c70c0710161513r2d43e55fj3f9caf4155a5100d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <471284EF.2010009@studio4plus.com> References: <471284EF.2010009@studio4plus.com>
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On 10/15/07, Marcin Simonides <marcin@studio4plus.com> wrote: > I've tried using an XP ndis wrapper for my intel 4965 wifi adapter. > After loading the driver the device is recognized and then kernel panics > during driver attachement. > > I'm using RELENG6 that has been updated a couple of months ago. I'll > probably update it soon and then try again. > > This is the most important (AFAIK) information (I had to put this > information down on a piece of paper, so it's not complete, I'll try to > figure out a way to dump ddb output to a file): > > First an error from NDIS is printed: > NDIS API version: 5.1 > NDIS ERROR: 4000167c (internal error) > > then the kernel paniced: > > Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode > fault code = supervisor read, page not present > > stopped at device_get_softc+0x6 movl 0x48(%eax),%eax > > the backtrace shows: > device_get_softc > NdisMAllocateSharedMemory > _end > [...] > NETw4x32_sys_drv_data_start > > NETw4x32_sys is the module name. > > > I've seen in the pr database that there are many similar problems (i.e. > ndis wrapper not working with certain drivers). Should I send a PR > related to this particular wifi card I have? > > Is there any more information that I could provide to help the > developers with enabling support for more wifi cards? > (I'll try to take a peek into the driver code but as I've never done any > kernel programming this may yield no useful results). > > Thanks for your time :) > -- > Marcin Simonides Having it to work would be interesting ;) -- Regards, -Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri Arab Portal http://www.WeArab.Net/
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