ndis problem

Lorin Lund wbs at infowest.com
Mon May 29 14:31:37 PDT 2006


I'm running 6.1-RELEASE i386.  Generic kernel.
The wireless 'card' is a built-in Broadcom 802.11 b/g
My PC is a Compaq V2607CL Turion based notebook

I downloaded a driver kit from HP.  It created
  c:\SWSetup\SP32158A\
In that folder I found
  bcmwl5.inf
  bcmwl5.sys
  bcmwl5npf.sys
and lots of other files.

The .INF file was UNICODE.  But as far as I can tell the only
special characters were in the
[strings]
section for various countries.  I cut off all the other countries 
leaving just US and
forced it to ASCII. 

ndiscvt gave no error messages.

The
  make
  make install
gave no error messages.

I added an ndis linen to loader.conf to load the .ko

dmesg shows no error messages.  But it doesn't show ndis0: being 
recognized either.

When I manually try
  kldload ndis
it says it is already loaded.

When I try
  ifconfig -a
there is no ndis:
When I try
  ifconfig ndis0:
it says there is no interface.

I don't know what else to try.


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