Wireless PCMIA problems

[Lars Hederidder]

I've tryed to use the Windows driver, but it doesn't seem to
work. I did the following:

# cd /usr/src/sys/modules/ndis/
# make && make install
# cd ../if_ndis/
# cp /cdrom/driver/* ./
# ndiscvt -i ./netwpx96.inf -s ./wlpx96e.sys -o ndis_driver_data.h
# make && make install
# kldload ndis
# kldload if_ndis

When running dmesg there are no ndis0 to be found in the list.
The only data linked to the card is the following:
pccard0: <unknown card> (manufacturer=0x0101, product=0x0696) at function 0
pccard0:    CIS info: 3Com, 3CRSHPW_96 Wireless LAN PC Card, (null)

Regards
Lars

On Tuesday 15 February 2005 18:04, you wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 February 2005 10:40 am, Lars Hederidder wrote:
> > Hey,
> >
> > I have a 3Com 3CRSHPW_96 Wireless PCMIA card for my laptop.
> > However I'm a newbie at using PCMIA cards on FreeBSD.
> >
> > BSD finds the card when I plug it in, but it doesn't show up when
> > I use the ifconfig command.
> >
> > Can anyone help me with this problem, so I can get it up and running.
> > The system is a fresh installed FreeBSD 5.3
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> > Lars
>
> When you say FreeBSD "sees" the card, do you mean it is associated with
> a device, or just that the card's name appears in dmesg?
>
> It would appear, from the email message link below, that this card
> requires the use of it's Windows drivers.
>
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-mobile/2004-September/004804.htm
>l
>
> Follow the link below to the online handbook's chapter on wireless
> networking.  Read the whole chapter; but pay particular attention to
> section 25.3.3.6.3, toward the bottom, regarding the NDISulator.
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-wireless.
>html
>
> Best of luck,
>
> Andrew Gould