From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 24 16:52:21 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 88E8DA57; Fri, 24 Jan 2014 16:52:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-la0-x22f.google.com (mail-la0-x22f.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4010:c03::22f]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D2417123F; Fri, 24 Jan 2014 16:52:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-la0-f47.google.com with SMTP id hr17so2774072lab.34 for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2014 08:52:18 -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=VV9lRpAdkXDR72OKyY+RRCLfs/dxKwtKg+Y2fd+ro5Y=; b=oCbu3UmxmM8y9Bnns4HZ820PbOSHsyDMFtjJWp/6MkudfTPfpCYs5+slMu0YOR2mn7 tJ5Dqo9mLbV43y7IXHFgnwREHFJGK3VuShgYBbvB5zGQIbBPgl5c0B8XdANZYyis7/DG 6bUWMqhmLudPt3Q9yKEQfE2ooxwnvTxuDrfEgOR08gmvhFKq+8VjGPS+Z22JGsBT/buL OxBVuduvloLIu3GSvkKXiS2wIsOhIlhze11I+Dqb+q/dIyZ6ZRbvhdnPKtlKsZdWDIOe LfUIZVc9UEDmtAUFFmlIG0JqLrORbqCp88Ibk1CpACbRILxfrYZ/MM0V40Va1k7odjN+ gZ6g== X-Received: by 10.112.148.104 with SMTP id tr8mr1947610lbb.42.1390582338797; Fri, 24 Jan 2014 08:52:18 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.112.62.163 with HTTP; Fri, 24 Jan 2014 08:51:58 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <610447.24251.bm@smtp117.sbc.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> From: Miguel Clara Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 16:51:58 +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 16:52:21 -0000 Ah.. my bad its "0x47217" not 21 :P works: ndis0: flags=8802 metric 0 mtu 1500 ether ac:81:12:35:79:73 nd6 options=29 media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect ) status: no carrier On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 4:49 PM, Miguel Clara wrote: > 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 >>>