NDIS problem on FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE (I think)....

Eric Schuele E.Schuele at Comcast.Net
Fri Oct 1 20:22:57 PDT 2004


Disregard my post/thread.

Found a typo in my /etc/dhclient.conf.  Fixed it.... problem went away.

thx

On Wednesday 29 September 2004 10:53 pm, Eric Schuele wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm not sure who to go to with this.  I managed to get everything
> installed the way I like it on my Dell laptop... including the
> miniPCI WLAN adapter using the NDIS wrapper for Windows Drivers.
>
> It appears to work flawlessly when I am within range of a WAP... but
> when I am at the office (where there are none)...  I occasionally get
> completely locked up.  If I leave it locked up for a minute or so, it
> dies and reboots itself. I might think it is my wired interface
> except I can run on it all night at home (WAP is present).  Guess I
> could try disabling my WAP at home and run wired.  But its a bit
> random.... so I could be like that for hours at home.
>
> It generally happens 2-3 times in an 8 hour period.  Saw it happen
> once when I manually ran dhclient.  If I manually unload the NDIS 
> modules after booting up... It never happens.  So I suspect the NDIS
> wrapper.
>
> I realize the work may not be completed on these wrappers... but
> though maybe if I could let the appropriate folks know... maybe they
> could fix it before it becomes a real problem.
>
> Any help is appreciated.
> Eric
>
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