Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 05:59:00 -0800 From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> To: Thomas Mueller <mueller6724@bellsouth.net> Cc: freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, Miguel Clara <miguelmclara@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Freebsd 11 current testing ndis / kldload: bcmwl564_sys.ko PANIC Message-ID: <CAJ-VmonyrUEYRkY8KrJziHv8%2Bb5oaYxmHOzqqyiScgPc9%2Bb9MA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <610447.24251.bm@smtp117.sbc.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> References: <CADGo8CVGhPXvho-xSfJAjLxe5rc%2B4QYPCJLcDHjmQRogDZNntA@mail.gmail.com> <CAJ-VmoknZioM8mWFFJEdJgKeB6ixQFFqyyQAZgX-ALB-iHLKEg@mail.gmail.com> <CADGo8CUyayK05zC9oJQfMd69rW6noytJrDqGgEa-LQaudvOEbA@mail.gmail.com> <CAJ-VmokZZ6em=P%2Bm-eKB6AexNc14pP9axA9EuxD8vHYcapJFxQ@mail.gmail.com> <CADGo8CUpTvuBya2aF4P5DUhVLfjg0c%2BR3enNW=YdqOeWUCeN3g@mail.gmail.com> <610447.24251.bm@smtp117.sbc.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
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... who's the author of this? Why aren't they posting updates to FreeBSD-HEAD so it can be included in the base system? Does anyone have a contact email for the author, Vadislav? -a On 24 January 2014 03:52, Thomas Mueller <mueller6724@bellsouth.net> wrote: > To Miguel Clara, you might try a USB wireless adapter. I use Hiro H50191, driver rsu. > > But you would need to do good research to find what the chip is, and which FreeBSD driver, if any, would it work with, before you buy. > > NDISulator looks worth trying. FreeBSD users will want to know if it works. > > https://github.com/NDISulator/ndisulator > > Regarding deprecation of NDIS, is it a matter of something that is compatible with Linux but very difficult to port to BSD? > > There is the problem with newer MS-Windows drivers that they don't come with .sys and .inf files, or maybe they have to be unpacked and installed from MS-Windows. Then NDIS would have nothing to work with. > > Tom >
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