Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 11:43:14 +0200 From: Fabian Keil <freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de> To: Lorin Lund <wbs@infowest.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ndis problem Message-ID: <20060530114314.286c1dd4@localhost> In-Reply-To: <447B67BD.8070905@infowest.com> References: <000801c68312$4d2e5590$0201a8c0@AMD1700> <200605290912.49807.mark@msen.com> <ab7676e40605291008l43bfa8cdo@mail.gmail.com> <447B67BD.8070905@infowest.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Lorin Lund <wbs@infowest.com> wrote: > I'm running 6.1-RELEASE i386. Generic kernel. > The wireless 'card' is a built-in Broadcom 802.11 b/g > My PC is a Compaq V2607CL Turion based notebook > > I downloaded a driver kit from HP. It created > c:\SWSetup\SP32158A\ > In that folder I found > bcmwl5.inf > bcmwl5.sys > bcmwl5npf.sys > and lots of other files. > > The .INF file was UNICODE. But as far as I can tell the only > special characters were in the > [strings] > section for various countries. I cut off all the other countries > leaving just US and > forced it to ASCII. > > ndiscvt gave no error messages. > > The > make > make install > gave no error messages. > > I added an ndis linen to loader.conf to load the .ko > > dmesg shows no error messages. But it doesn't show ndis0: being > recognized either. > > When I manually try > kldload ndis > it says it is already loaded. > > When I try > ifconfig -a > there is no ndis: > When I try > ifconfig ndis0: > it says there is no interface. > > I don't know what else to try. ndisgen(8) Fabian -- http://www.fabiankeil.de/ [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEfBO2jV8GA4rMKUQRAnG8AJwIFSUEY4UA9LnNvRudKqYhJ1wYHwCgtpCw DC9fLQnNmGV1eKrQuDEn0eI= =T1Lx -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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