ndis problem

[Fabian Keil]

Lorin Lund <wbs at infowest.com> wrote:

> 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.

ndisgen(8)

Fabian
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