From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 24 16:50:03 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 2603C71B; Fri, 24 Jan 2014 16:50:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-lb0-x232.google.com (mail-lb0-x232.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4010:c04::232]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6F2A01219; Fri, 24 Jan 2014 16:50:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-lb0-f178.google.com with SMTP id u14so2715872lbd.37 for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2014 08:50:00 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; bh=72rwKFEN0Abl3t84Qjvkxhb0szgMyrVd/aseFOuyTVA=; b=YTTZq5mEq3jEZESa03ldcbdWsX5dnettYnPCeXSJqeHkjrZlD4WuT0GjSKt5/LWTc/ 9KhsmsOjA5JR3yPZQtoDLCJCZFDzNixBJXIXHzP9L04lXqtMjXofdeO01hRwycQBb72d I/vx2fEgLTnOYHZTvNPZ3zBSklKv3A3UG7nQiFJxDhlIaxm34RpY/8XRHh57esl9llkh uM3tx4ad8Uzwu4SszKadzP8NCpTzv+B6AwhxnL1fkukZlWS6tG4i1bztdGwpsHXOvMJf 2Ng16kRlwU0UpAa9Y0/1wTA3AHdA3MDdbsLU7jJB9se+uDVlNITMPuwRPcU+Hy2/VmFT 19Lw== X-Received: by 10.112.157.234 with SMTP id wp10mr765138lbb.50.1390582200390; Fri, 24 Jan 2014 08:50:00 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.112.62.163 with HTTP; Fri, 24 Jan 2014 08:49:40 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <610447.24251.bm@smtp117.sbc.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> From: Miguel Clara Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 16:49:40 +0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Freebsd 11 current testing ndis / kldload: bcmwl564_sys.ko PANIC To: Adrian Chadd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: Thomas Mueller , freebsd-current 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 16:50:03 -0000 NOTE: tried NDISulator pciconf -lv | grep -i bcm -B2 none2@pci0:13:0:0: class=0x028000 card=0x145c103c chip=0x472714e4 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation' device = 'BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller' # ndisload -p -s /home/user/bcmWireless/bcmwl564.sys -n bcmw -v 0x14e4 -d 0x4721 and get this in dmesg: NDIS: no match for ZwQueryInformationFile I'll report it in the github page, but it seems its not working! # tail /var/log/messages Jan 24 16:44:37 hpbsd kernel: NDIS: no match for ZwQueryInformationFile Jan 24 16:46:10 hpbsd kernel: NDIS: no match for ZwQueryInformationFile Jan 24 16:48:27 hpbsd kernel: Warning: memory type ndis_ntoskrnl leaked memory on destroy (8 allocations, 2304 bytes leaked). On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 1:59 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote: > ... 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 >>