Atheros WIFI is not recognized on FreeBSD 8.0-RC1

Paul B Mahol onemda at gmail.com
Mon Jan 4 19:14:11 UTC 2010


On 1/4/10, Eugene Dzhurinsky <bofh at redwerk.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 12:01:15PM +0100, Paul B Mahol wrote:
>> On 1/3/10, Eugene Dzhurinsky <bofh at redwerk.com> wrote:
>> > On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 11:54:55AM +0100, Paul B Mahol wrote:
>> >> On 12/25/09, Eugene Dzhurinsky <bofh at redwerk.com> wrote:
>> >> > On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 04:38:26PM +0000, Rui Paulo wrote:
>> >> >> Have you tried using if_ndis?
>> >> > The kernel module I've created just hangs once loaded :(
>> >> This is on amd64?
>> >
>> > No, i386
>>
>> Is anything displayed on console? Are you sure you are using
>> 5.1 driveres (for XP) and not newer ones?
>
> I am using xp3264-7.7.0.329-whql.zip file from Atheros.
>
> When trying to convert the ones athwx.sys and netathwx.inf I am getting the
> error:
>
> ndiscvt: line 5117: : syntax error.
> CONVERSION FAILED
>
> same for
>
> netathw.inf athw.sys
>
> I'm sure that worked for me earlier.
>
>> Could you please test code from here:
>> http://gitorious.org/ndisulator
>
> Sorry, I'm not sure that I understand how to use that. Should I copy the
> folders to /usr/src and rebuild world and kernel?

Just use mount_nullfs, no need to change files.

-- 
Paul B Mahol


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