Can't get ndis0 working

Paul B. Mahol onemda at gmail.com
Thu Jun 4 17:53:07 UTC 2009 

On 5/14/09, Neal Hogan <nealhogan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 4:00 AM, Walter, Richard <richard.walter at hob.de>
> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I tried to activate my Acer's Aspire 5315 wireless card
>> with FreeBSD 7.2 i386 and had no luck.
>>
>> What i did:
>> 1) #prtconf -lv
>> none2 at pci0:6:0:0:       class=0x028000 card=0x04221468 chip=0x431114e4
>> rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
>>    vendor     = 'Broadcom Corporation'
>>    device     = 'Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-PCI Card'
>>    class      = network
>>
>> 2) i Downloaded the R112196.EXE archive from the Dell ftp server and
>>   extracted bcmwl5.inf and bcmwl5.sys
>> 3) i copied those files to /sys/modules/if_ndis
>> 4) # iconv -c -f utf-16 -t ascii bcmwl5.inf > bcmwl5.inf.ascii
>> 5) with ndisgen and bcmwl5.inf.ascii/bcmwl5.sys i created
>>   successful bcmwl5_sys.ko.
>>   The ndisgen wrote a message at sys file loading:
>>   "This .SYS file appears to be in Windows(r) PE format"
>> 6) # cp bcmwl5_sys.ko /boot/kernel
>> 7) # kldload bcmwl5_sys.ko
>>    kldload: cant't load bcmwl5_sys.ko
>>
>>   # kldloat /boot/kernel/bcmwl5_sys.ko
>>    kldload: cant't load /boot/kernel/bcmwl5_sys.ko

This is wrong, what is displayed on console?

>>
>> 8) Next try with help from
>> http://dannyman.toldme.com/2005/01/05/freebsd-howto-ndisulate-windows-drivers
>>
>> # rm /boot/kernel/bcmwl5_sys.ko
>> # rm /sys/modules/if_ndis/bcmwl5_sys.ko
>>
>> 9)cd /sys/modules/if_ndis
>> # ndiscvt -i bcmwl5.inf.ascii -s bcmwl5.sys -o ndis_driver_data.h
>>
>> 10) # make && make install
>> Warning: Object directory not changed from original
>> /usr/src/sys/modules/if_ndis
>> @ -> /usr/src/sys
>> machine -> /usr/src/sys/i386/include
>> awk -f @/tools/makeobjops.awk @/kern/device_if.m -h
>> awk -f @/tools/makeobjops.awk @/kern/bus_if.m -h
>> awk -f @/tools/makeobjops.awk @/dev/pci/pci_if.m -h
>> awk -f @/tools/makeobjops.awk @/dev/pccard/card_if.m -h
>> awk -f @/tools/pccarddevs2h.awk @/dev/pccard/pccarddevs
>> :> opt_usb.h
>> awk -f @/tools/usbdevs2h.awk @/dev/usb/usbdevs -h
>> cc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe  -D_KERNEL -DKLD_MODULE -std=c99
>> -nostdinc   -I. -I@ -I@/contrib/altq -finline-limit=8000 --param
>> inline-unit-growth=100 --param large-function-growth=1000 -fno-common
>>  -mno-align-long-strings -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2  -mno-mmx -mno-3dnow
>> -mno-sse -mno-sse2 -mno-sse3 -ffreestanding -Wall -Wredundant-decls
>> -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes  -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith
>> -Winline -Wcast-qual  -Wundef -Wno-pointer-sign -fformat-extensions -c
>> /usr/src/sys/modules/if_ndis/../../dev/if_ndis/if_ndis.c
>> cc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe  -D_KERNEL -DKLD_MODULE -std=c99
>> -nostdinc   -I. -I@ -I@/contrib/altq -finline-limit=8000 --param
>> inline-unit-growth=100 --param large-function-growth=1000 -fno-common
>>  -mno-align-long-strings -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2  -mno-mmx -mno-3dnow
>> -mno-sse -mno-sse2 -mno-sse3 -ffreestanding -Wall -Wredundant-decls
>> -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes  -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith
>> -Winline -Wcast-qual  -Wundef -Wno-pointer-sign -fformat-extensions -c
>> /usr/src/sys/modules/if_ndis/../../dev/if_ndis/if_ndis_pci.c
>> cc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe  -D_KERNEL -DKLD_MODULE -std=c99
>> -nostdinc   -I. -I@ -I@/contrib/altq -finline-limit=8000 --param
>> inline-unit-growth=100 --param large-function-growth=1000 -fno-common
>>  -mno-align-long-strings -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2  -mno-mmx -mno-3dnow
>> -mno-sse -mno-sse2 -mno-sse3 -ffreestanding -Wall -Wredundant-decls
>> -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes  -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith
>> -Winline -Wcast-qual  -Wundef -Wno-pointer-sign -fformat-extensions -c
>> /usr/src/sys/modules/if_ndis/../../dev/if_ndis/if_ndis_pccard.c
>> cc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe  -D_KERNEL -DKLD_MODULE -std=c99
>> -nostdinc   -I. -I@ -I@/contrib/altq -finline-limit=8000 --param
>> inline-unit-growth=100 --param large-function-growth=1000 -fno-common
>>  -mno-align-long-strings -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2  -mno-mmx -mno-3dnow
>> -mno-sse -mno-sse2 -mno-sse3 -ffreestanding -Wall -Wredundant-decls
>> -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes  -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith
>> -Winline -Wcast-qual  -Wundef -Wno-pointer-sign -fformat-extensions -c
>> /usr/src/sys/modules/if_ndis/../../dev/if_ndis/if_ndis_usb.c
>> ld  -d -warn-common -r -d -o if_ndis.kld if_ndis.o if_ndis_pci.o
>> if_ndis_pccard.o if_ndis_usb.o
>> :> export_syms
>> awk -f /usr/src/sys/modules/if_ndis/../../conf/kmod_syms.awk if_ndis.kld
>>  export_syms | xargs -J% objcopy % if_ndis.kld
>> ld -Bshareable  -d -warn-common -o if_ndis.ko if_ndis.kld
>> objcopy --strip-debug if_ndis.ko
>> install -o root -g wheel -m 555   if_ndis.ko /boot/kernel
>> kldxref /boot/kernel
>>
>> 11) # kldload if_ndis
>>    # kldstat
>>        Id Refs Address    Size     Name
>>  1   19 0xc0400000 9fab28   kernel
>>  2    1 0xc0dfb000 6a45c    acpi.ko
>>  3    1 0xc4767000 22000    linux.ko
>>  4    1 0xc489c000 9000     i915.ko
>>  5    1 0xc48a5000 13000    drm.ko
>>  6    1 0xc532c000 c000     if_ndis.ko
>>  7    1 0xc5338000 16000    ndis.ko
>>
>> 12) # ifconfig ndis0 up
>> ifconfig: interface ndis0 does not exist
>>
>> I've no idea whats going wrong , perhaps anyone can help ?
>
> Perhaps I can indirectly help . . .
>
> I had a discussion on this list a little while back about the ndis
> wrapper. Perhaps some of the suggestions made to me by folks who have
> had success with it will help you. It looks as though you did some (if
> not all) of the things that I did, which were commented on in the
> discussion. My patience wore too thin for me to fully work it out, but
> perhaps you're a better man than I.
>
> http://freebsd.monkey.org/freebsd-questions/200901/msg00435.html
>
> One thing that may not be mentioned in the above the thread is that
> you may have to try different .inf and .sys files until you get one
> that works . . . that consumed most of the little patience that I had.
>
> Good luck!
>
> -Neal
>
>
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Richard
>>
>>
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