ndisgen and WPC54G v3, FreeBSD 6.2

Anindya Baruah anindyabaruah at gmail.com
Sun Mar 18 13:49:47 UTC 2007


Hi, I recently installed FreeBSD 6.2 Release on my notebook. Since
then I have been trying to get my WPC54G v3 to work with it. I used
ndisgen to make kernel module bcmwl5_sys.ko. I loaded it using
kldload. However when I try "dmesg | grep ndis" I don't see anything.

root at notebook# dmesg | grep ndis
root at notebook#

Also when I remove the card and insert it again, the power LED comes
on for a second and then turns off again.

I have seen  a post where the person was having the same problem, but
there weren't any replies to his posts. :(

I followed the instructions from this page
http://taosecurity.blogspot.com/2006/02/linksys-wpc54g-with-freebsd-yesterday.html

Also in the manual page
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/config-network-setup.html
it is written that we should use "kldload ndis" and then "kldload
if_ndis", however on FreeBSD 6.2 they are loaded automatically when I
load the bcmwl5_sys.ko. Please have a look at my kldstat.

root at notebook# kldload bcmwl5_sys
root at notebook# kldstat
Id Refs Address    Size     Name
 1   16 0xc0400000 6f9638   kernel
 2    1 0xc0afa000 32e4     splash_bmp.ko
 3    1 0xc0bbe000 5fa0     snd_ich.ko
 4    2 0xc0bc4000 22b88    sound.ko
 5    1 0xc0be7000 2364     accf_http.ko
 6    1 0xc0bea000 59f20    acpi.ko
10    1 0xc558e000 69000    bcmwl5_sys.ko
11    1 0xc5603000 b000     if_ndis.ko
12    2 0xc568d000 13000    ndis.ko

Is it possible that its not working because of those getting loaded
automatically? Or is it because of something else in FreeBSD 6.2.

Also I saw a post about a similar problem but there werent any replies
to that post either. Have a look
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hardware/2007-March/004280.html.

I hope someone replies to this one.

Thanks in advance.

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