ndis with USB wifi dongle - no joy

[Tom K]

Tom K wrote:
> Fabian Keil wrote:
>> Tom K <tomk at runbox.com> wrote:
>>
>>  
>>> I'm running PC-BSD, with FreeBSD 6 under the hood. The device is a 
>>> Netgear MA111, with Prism 2.5 chipset, which dmesg shows as
>>>
>>> ugen1: vendor 0x0846 product 0x4110, rev 1.10/1.32
>>>
>>> This is what I've done so far:
>>>
>>> - Installed the kernel source in /usr/src/sys.
>>> - Copied over the .inf and .sys files from the WinXP driver
>>> - Run ndisgen, which reported success
>>> - Copied the new module to /boot/kernel
>>> - kldload ndis and kldload new_module
>>>
>>> No ndis interface is created, and dmesg shows the following messages:
>>>
>>> no match for USBD_CreateConfigurationRequestEx
>>> no match for USBD_ParseConfigurationDescriptorEx
>>>
>>> I can't find any reference anywhere to these errors, or anything 
>>> like them. I'd be grateful for any suggestions.
>>>     
>>
>> AFAIK ndis doesn't work with USB devices.
>>
>> Fabian
>>   
>
> Thanks Fabian. I thought that might be the case, but I couldn't find a 
> definitive 'yes' or 'no' anywhere.
>

Minor update, if anyone's interested - I've now tried it on freebsd 6.1, 
with the same result.