Ndis + Netgear WG311v3 ; Won't attach device correctly

[John Nielsen]

On Wednesday 09 August 2006 11:40, Frank Staals wrote:
> The only thing changed since the first time I loaded the module was I
> copied it to /boot/kernel and I added WG311v3XP_sys_load="YES" to
> /boot/loader.conf but those changes shouldn't have effect on not
> correctly loading it I think.

This is the key. I can't remember where I read it but this is a documented 
caveat of the ndis driver. Windows doesn't typically invoke network drivers 
until after the system is loaded, so some drivers won't work in FreeBSD 
unless they're loaded after the system is up. So take the line out 
of /boot/loader.conf, test that the driver works correctly if you reboot and 
kldload it manually, then make an rc script or something to automatically 
load the driver later in the boot process.

JN