From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 24 13:59:01 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 34C07CD8 for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2014 13:59:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qc0-x233.google.com (mail-qc0-x233.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400d:c01::233]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E35A91F45 for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2014 13:59:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-qc0-f179.google.com with SMTP id e16so4334983qcx.24 for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2014 05:59:00 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject :from:to:cc:content-type; bh=FYtpGB5E3HISeD6l78TJxen6JUJGnfiWWs65Ycemt8g=; b=Ofi/ookReB4L7PH1TpHnVa5a8Ocawq7ccXJPByCK8JyONrq253QrwPGAtY0x5xeoTk YvQSbsLUrATdssVR8ET5JbSbChfG8ckDkQTsG0co5niGVHQbJ53Bm7UeSSh9bL4gW4W0 gnziqDbm7320hEPIwAIrrI/en+Lb/QL81aqSAEdOo9La71Is7+mdCqdSEnqr2XD2RwGu fn8vE8qYMhH7IEcH7V0H+iO4o/jOqtWDZd2qA+9sO38yBHKlaBLYlMT1ii7tFB2zIdva ubyIZVIR51kCvvdMmcQxswG/ixQ4cMctJkg0sj+Mwbya29Z4RrtqFc5zqnfszE6OR84a wkDw== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.140.98.135 with SMTP id o7mr19201650qge.102.1390571940144; Fri, 24 Jan 2014 05:59:00 -0800 (PST) Sender: adrian.chadd@gmail.com Received: by 10.224.52.8 with HTTP; Fri, 24 Jan 2014 05:59:00 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <610447.24251.bm@smtp117.sbc.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> References: <610447.24251.bm@smtp117.sbc.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 05:59:00 -0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 3PSdam81MglGhvkqjkOEBNX3vIc Message-ID: Subject: Re: Freebsd 11 current testing ndis / kldload: bcmwl564_sys.ko PANIC From: Adrian Chadd To: Thomas Mueller Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: freebsd-current , Miguel Clara X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 13:59:01 -0000 ... who's the author of this? Why aren't they posting updates to FreeBSD-HEAD so it can be included in the base system? Does anyone have a contact email for the author, Vadislav? -a On 24 January 2014 03:52, Thomas Mueller wrote: > To Miguel Clara, you might try a USB wireless adapter. I use Hiro H50191, driver rsu. > > But you would need to do good research to find what the chip is, and which FreeBSD driver, if any, would it work with, before you buy. > > NDISulator looks worth trying. FreeBSD users will want to know if it works. > > https://github.com/NDISulator/ndisulator > > Regarding deprecation of NDIS, is it a matter of something that is compatible with Linux but very difficult to port to BSD? > > There is the problem with newer MS-Windows drivers that they don't come with .sys and .inf files, or maybe they have to be unpacked and installed from MS-Windows. Then NDIS would have nothing to work with. > > Tom >