broadcom wireless card on FB7 using ndisgen, no ndis0 after kldload

Kemian Dang dangkm at gmail.com
Thu Jan 31 06:33:37 PST 2008


Glen Barber 写道:
> On Wednesday 30 January 2008 07:18:51 pm Kemian Dang wrote:
>
>   
>> I have a laptop which using the broadcom wireless card.
>> I download the bcmwl5a.inf/.sys and use ndisgen to generate the .ko
>> file, then I kldload it as the doc said.
>> I can see ndis,if_ndis and bcmwl using kldstat, but there are no ndis0
>> when ifconfig.
>> I have tried add the bcmwl to the /boot/loader.conf, but still no ndis0.
>> And there no message in the dmesg about the ndis.
>>
>>     
>
> Did you copy the bcmxxx.ko file to /book/kernel/ ?  If you did, make sure you 
> have an entry in your /boot/loader.conf: 
> bcmxxx_load="YES"
>
> I have my bcm driver called 'bcmwl5_sys.ko' and 'bcmwl5_sys_load="YES" in 
> my /boot/loader.conf.
>
> Hope that helps
>
>   
Yes, mine is bcmwl5a_sys.ko and I have tried to put it in the 
loader.conf. Actually, it is in the loader.conf now. I list it below:

%ls /boot/modules/bcmwl*
/boot/modules/bcmwl5a_sys.ko
%more /boot/loader.conf
nvidia_load="yes"
bcmwl5a_sys_load="yes"

Does "yes" differ from "YES"?

Best wishes,
Kemian


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