Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 16:16:15 -0500 From: Dustin Coates <demonbob@systemoverload.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ndis problem Message-ID: <447CB61F.1030702@systemoverload.net> 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>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Lorin Lund 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. Try using ndisgen to make the wrapper. ndisgen should create a bcwml5_sys.ko file in the directory, then you need to copy that file to /boot/kernel/ After that in your loader.conf add bcmwl5_sys_load="YES" along with the ndis_load="YES". I beleive that the old way of creating the ndis drivers is either broken, or being faded out for ndisgen. I have the same wireless cards and this is the way i did it. So it should work.
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?447CB61F.1030702>