Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 09:24:47 -0500 From: Coleman Kane <cokane@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.org Subject: NDIS wrapper driver compatibility Message-ID: <47331C2F.7090506@FreeBSD.org>
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Hello, I recently got an HP Compaq 6715b notebook with a Broadcom BCM94321 draft-n wifi adapter in it. I am moving from a Gateway 7422GX with the BCM4306 b+g card in it. Both of these are amd64 notebooks. When I first set up the Gateway, the card of course didn't work. I tried the drivers from Gateway's site, but they ended up tossing a kernel panic. I went through other drivers until I finally came across some that Jung-uk Kim had gotten to work, and these have been working fine on the Gateway. Since getting the HP, I have been very determined to get FreeBSD working on it. So I spent the past two days scouring the 'net for different releases of the Win64 drivers compatible with my card (device ID 0x4328). After going through like 10 different drivers, and even manually adding the device id's to .inf files, I finally found a driver that actually gets the draft-n card to work under the amd64 NDIS wrapper. I am curious if there is any effort to document these successes. It seems that there are as many "live" driver revisions in the wild as there are hardware combinations (perhaps more!). For anyone who's not as determined as I (to spend two days on it), it would be really cool to have a project (in the wiki for instance) that tracks successful driver revisions, as well as being a central point to document and resolve failures. I intend to put the driver .inf, .sys, and .ko up on my site (which already has some documentation about getting FreeBSD/amd64 working on the Gateway and a similar Compaq R3000), but I only have three examples to demo. I would much rather pair this up with a community-based site with a larger scope. -- Coleman Kane
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