Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2006 14:27:24 +0200 From: Fabian Keil <freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de> To: hernan <hernan.silberman@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [freebsd-questions] ndis setup Message-ID: <20060409142724.7513bb57@localhost> In-Reply-To: <9b9d376a0604082312xa9e7a2fnd6694d227819e2eb@mail.gmail.com> References: <9b9d376a0604082312xa9e7a2fnd6694d227819e2eb@mail.gmail.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] hernan <hernan.silberman@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey folks. I'm setting up FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE and I'm having a little > trouble getting my wireless NIC recognized. The card is a Linksys > WMP64G and I'm trying to set things up to run with the FreeBSD > NDISulator as described in the FreeBSD handbook > (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/network-wireless.html). This chapter is outdated. > Here's what I'm doing (as root): > > 1) Verifying with 'pciconf -lv' that the PCI card is there. Also, I > know the card works, it was running fine on Windows. > > 2) Building ndis itself: > 3) Building the if_ndis module: > 4) Loading the ndis and if_ndis modules: > kldload ndis > I verify at this point using kldstat that both ndis and if_ndis are > in fact loaded. > > I see nothing in dmesg or in my console during the kldload. Also, it > doesn't appear that the driver found the card, there's no signs of > life. I've tried using ndisgen, and have had the same results (with > much less typing). In either case, I get nothing in dmesg and no > usable enabled NIC. After you run ndisgen you should have a third kernel module with a name similar to the name of your sys file. If you load this module you should at least get an error message. Fabian -- http://www.fabiankeil.de/ [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEOP2zjV8GA4rMKUQRAgAkAJ98bOKCaaaQuV3KZZHY4I4IxKm/dwCfQ+lX JwylrX7J/KPYPEzvlJN6ssg= =tNom -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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