Problems building wireless ndis kernel module for D-Link DWL-650 V.P1 under FreeBSD v 5.4... for Intel...IBM ThinkPad 380z...help?...

[Dominic Caffey]

Mark,
           Thanks for the suggestion.  I tried it but unfortunately it
did NOT work. I did indeed find another pair of inf & sys files in the
top level of the DLINK zip file and they had different contents then
what was in the WinXP folder as verified by doing a diff on the inf
file and chksum on the sys files. I also tried the inf & sys files
from the working Win2K installation on the same hardware and also was
unsuccessful.  In all cases, I still got the same error from ndiscvt.
The directions in the FreeBSD online handbook state that one should
use the Win-XP files, which I originally did, but does one absolutely
have to use the Win-XP files or should the Win2k files work as well?
Hopefully someone can provide some clarification on this.  I also
examined my inf files and they didn't have any control-chars-crap in
them; all inf versions appeared to be clean.  Hopefully someone else
can shed some light on my problem.  Thanks again for your suggestion.

Dom

On 7/1/05, Mark A-J. Raught (from the laptop) <mraught at acm.org> wrote:
> Dominic Caffey wrote:
> > Dear FreeBSD-Mobile & Newbies & Bill Paul,
> >
> >       I'm having problems bulding a wireless ndis kernel module and
> > was hoping I might get some help with where I'm going wrong. Please be
> > aware that I did check the list archives at
> > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/mmsearch/freebsd-mobile before
> > posting but got no hits. I also tried google'ing the error message as
> > well with no hits so please no RTFM replies because I've already
> > RTFM'd at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-wireless.html
> > section 25.3.3.6.3 802.11a & 802.11g Clients.  Here's the pertinet
> > information:
> >
> > uname -a output:
> > FreeBSD 380Z.none2.org 5.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE #0: Sun May  8
> > 10:21:06 UTC 2005
> > root at harlow.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
> >
> > pwd output:
> > /usr/src/sys/modules/if_ndis
> >
> > ls -l output:
> > total 1342
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     280 Mar 30 23:27 Makefile
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   14391 Jun 29 17:35 NETPRISM.inf
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  652288 Jun 29 17:35 PRISMNDS.sys
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  644608 Jun 29 17:35 PRISMUSB.sys
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      72 Jun 29 17:54 ndis_driver_data.h
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    8276 Jun 29 17:35 prismnic.cat
> >
> > ndiscvt output:
> > ndiscvt -i NETPRISM.inf -s PRISMNDS.sys -o ndis_driver_data.h
> > ndiscvt: line 376: : syntax error.
> >
> > I obtained the Win-XP drivers for the wireless NIC, D-Link DWL-650
> > V.P1, from http://support.dlink.com/products/view.asp?productid=DWL%2D650%5FrevP
> >
> > I'm trying to do this on an IBM ThinkPad 380z with 64Mb ram with a 8Gb
> > hard drive.
> >
> > The wireless NIC works fine under MS-Win2k.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Dom
> >
> 
> Dom,
> I had a similar error. I don't remember the exact error, but it was a
> syntax error and was due to the fact that I was using the wrong inf
> file. The correct one was pure ascii while the wrong one had
> miscellaneous crap in it. This may not be your problem, but it took me a
> while searching, until I gave up and went back to it and discovered that
> there were 2 inf files. Tried it with the other inf and all went well. I
> don't know if this is two different version of the same inf, or if it is
> an inf for a different system... Either way, you may want to check it
> out. I think my error was early in the file like line 6 or 8 though, so
> this may not help at all.
> 
> 
> -mark
> 


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