Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 13:04:08 +0200 From: Jona Joachim <jaj@hcl-club.lu> To: Doug Poland <doug@polands.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ndis wrapped Intel wireless driver causes panic Message-ID: <20070814130408.28f38eee@spaceman.my.domain> In-Reply-To: <20070814014345.GA9824@polands.org> References: <20070814014345.GA9824@polands.org>
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On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 20:43:45 -0500 Doug Poland <doug@polands.org> wrote: > Hello, > > I've got an HP/Compaq nx7400 and am having trouble with kernel > loadable object generated by ndisgen. (6.2-STABLE, i386). > > Following the man page for ndisgen(4), I have the following files: > > -rwx------ 1 dpoland wheel 27546 May 4 14:14:52 2007 > NETw4x32.CAT* -rwx------ 1 dpoland wheel 180005 May 4 14:14:52 > 2007 NETw4x32.INF* -rwx------ 1 dpoland wheel 2206976 May 4 > 14:14:52 2007 NETw4x32.SYS* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 4185539 Aug > 13 16:42:25 2007 NETw4x32_SYS.ko* > > I've copied the .ko file to /boot/kernel and when I type: > > root# kldload NETw4x32_SYS > > the system panics. <snip> I can confirm this. The FreeBSD ndis layer doesn't support the whole set of ndis features and is slippery when wet. Damien Bergamini wrote an OpenBSD driver for the 3945ABG chipset and he ported it to FreeBSD at some point. It works on fbsd 6.2 i386 only. Damien stopped developing the FreeBSD version for some reason so it may be a bit outdated but it works for many people. You should be able to find the sources for the driver by googling a bit. Good luck! Jona
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