Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 18:21:09 +0200 From: Fabian Keil <freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de> To: "Joao Barros" <joao.barros@gmail.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: NDISulator vs Linksys WMP54G BCM4306 Message-ID: <20060515182109.2249279e@localhost> In-Reply-To: <70e8236f0605150908q46d07c2dyc6015691081d1735@mail.gmail.com> References: <70e8236f0605150840w6fa3777fkcbf551f097f2a417@mail.gmail.com> <20060515175354.30237399@localhost> <70e8236f0605150908q46d07c2dyc6015691081d1735@mail.gmail.com>
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--Sig_fdbDsZ6Z=C9S9.Dxpp3TUHf Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable "Joao Barros" <joao.barros@gmail.com> wrote: > On 5/15/06, Fabian Keil <freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de> wrote: > > "Joao Barros" <joao.barros@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > I was trying NDISulator for the first time and it didn't go well, I > > > can't get the driver to detect the card. > > > When I load if_ndis nothing happens > > > When downloading the drivers from Linksys site I noticed there are 3 > > > versions of the WMP54G (v1,v2,v4) so I tried all three drivers with no > > > luck. > > You didn't use ndisgen, did you? > No I didn't, I used the instructions from here: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-wireles= s.html > Basically I just used ndiscvt. > When I tried ndisgen per your recomendation it worked! :-) > ndis0: <Wireless-G PCI Adapter> mem 0xe6910000-0xe6911fff irq 10 at > device 8.0 on pci0 > ndis0: NDIS API version: 5.0 > ndis0: Ethernet address: 00:0c:41:12:ab:c4 >=20 > With ndiscvt: > 48813 May 15 14:35 /usr/src/sys/modules/if_ndis/if_ndis.ko >=20 > With ndisgen: > 313921 May 15 16:57 bcmwl5_sys.ko >=20 > So something went wrong with ndiscvt as the file is way smaller. >=20 > I'm going to try and find out what went wrong (or I did wrong) and if > someone can shed light on this... There was a change in ndis a while ago, and the documentation isn't up to date. You no longer just have ndis.ko and if_ndis.ko, the windows driver is now built into an additional module. =20 > Either way, many thanks for the hint :-) You're welcome.=20 Fabian --=20 http://www.fabiankeil.de/ --Sig_fdbDsZ6Z=C9S9.Dxpp3TUHf Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEaKqFjV8GA4rMKUQRAlxBAJ4vDTrrt1OrSVRysxSEYVJLs2mgxACfVD2J 7uadyi35VCY2ynqm3zwwqh0= =PNBd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_fdbDsZ6Z=C9S9.Dxpp3TUHf--
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