Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 05:31:40 +0000 From: Gautham Ganapathy <gauthamg@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 64-bit Windows XP NDIS drivers giving missing symbols Message-ID: <AANLkTimAGYc7oUaGOmQkByXU2ykDKBjcKwF0tdKDxsRk@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikHX5bJ7a7U_D7Vp_gjZrJTXtWv_g-o_WVrub7K@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTikHX5bJ7a7U_D7Vp_gjZrJTXtWv_g-o_WVrub7K@mail.gmail.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On July 24, 2010 08:04AM, Paul B Mahol wrote: > On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 8:33 PM, Gautham Ganapathy <gauthamg@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi >> >> I have an Alienware m11x with a Dell 1520 wireless minicard (Broadcom >> BCM4353 chipset). It comes with only Windows 7 drivers, but I was able to >> download Windows XP drivers seperately. However, after I generate the kernel >> module (I am using the 64-bit WinXP driver and freebsd amd64), I get errors >> when I try to load it. It says that the following symbols are missing >> >> ZwQueryInformationFile >> ZwCreateFile >> ZwReadFile >> IoUnregisterPlugPlayNotification >> ExFreePoolWithTag >> >> According to MSDN, these were introduced in Windows 2000. >> >> Is there any way of getting this driver running ? > > Such symbols are completly irrelevant for normal operation, because > NDISulator crash on amd64 during driver initialization. > I fixed this in my own git repo, but "fpudna in kernel mode" (my > understanding is that it is source of panic when trying to use ndis0 > device on amd64), present only on amd64 is still not yet fixed - this > should be addressed with fpu_kern KPI available on CURRENT - not done > yet... > Feel free to send patches. > Hi Would these changes be available in 8.2-release? Regards Gautham PS - Sorry, I lost the original copy of the thread. Had to copy this from an archive.
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?AANLkTimAGYc7oUaGOmQkByXU2ykDKBjcKwF0tdKDxsRk>