NDIS and wifi doesnt work

[Kemian Dang]

I can not get response from "ifconfig ndis0 up scan", neither.

But as I know my wireless network's ssid, I just "ifconfig ndis0 ssid
xxx", which make the status change to "associate" and "dhclient ndis0"
can get IP from dhcp.

Kemian

On 18/02/2008, DSA - JCR <juancr at dsa.es> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Freebsd 6.3 RC2 (DesktopBSD 1.6)
> Laptop: Samsung Q35
> WIFI: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG
> ADSL with WIFI working
>
>
> In order to use the wifi included in this laptop i use NDIS with the MS
> Windows drivers and produced the file "w39n51_sys.ko". The MS driver has
> one INF and one SYS files and also one DLL files. I have used only the INF
> and SYS files. must I use the DLL file also?
>
> I copied to "/boot/modules" and in "/boot/loader.conf" put the line
>
> w39n51_sys_load="YES"
>
> as the handbook says, but this does not work, my laptop hungs at boot time.
>
> Then I tried to load manually the module
>
> kldload w39n51_sys.ko
>
> then ifconfig shows the ndis0 with NO carrier, and my laptop works fine.
> But I can not detect any WIFI with "ifconfig ndis0 scan"
>
> Maybe I am doing something wrong, what?
>
> Is there a driver for this wireless device? where?
>
>
>
> thanks in advance
>
> Juan Coruña
> Desarrollo de Software Atlantico
>
>
>
>
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