Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2005 21:10:36 -0700 From: Ian Larsen <drblast@gmail.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: ndis not working Message-ID: <aa29af9b050905211069339148@mail.gmail.com>
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Hello all, I just got a new HP ze2000 laptop with a Turion amd64 processor, and I've got 5-stable running on it. (Updated to stable from 5.4 Release this morning.) Everything works great except for the wireless card. ndiscvt works properly, and the kernel module loads just fine (an improvement over 5.4 release, which paniced on driver load) I've tried a number of different drivers, including: The generic 64-bit broadcom ones from here: http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/drivers.php 64 bit drivers from Acer at: ftp://ftp.support.acer-euro.com/notebook/ferrari_4000/driver/winxp64bit/80211g.zip pciconf -lv gives: none5@pci5:2:0: class=0x028000 card=0x1355103c chip=0x431814e4 rev=0x02 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation' class = network The acer drivers match the chip number exactly, as I found them on the Ndiswrapper list http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/List (driver #31) The odd thing is that under Gentoo, the wireless card works just fine with Ndiswrapper, using the aforementioned Acer drivers. To compile, I'm doing iconv -c -f utf-16 -t ascii bcmwl5.inf > bcmwl5.inf.ascii ndiscvt -i bcmwl5.inf.ascii -s BCMWL564.SYS -o ndis_driver_data.o make && make install And like I mentioned, the drivers compile and load just fine, but the network interface isn't available afterward (ifconfig -a) Please send any suggestions, I'm not a big fan of Gentoo and I'd really like to get FreeBSD fully working on this laptop. :-) Thanks! Ian Larsen
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