Can't get ndis0 working

[Walter, Richard]

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

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 ?

Best regards,

Richard




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