AW: Can't get ndis0 working

Walter, Richard richard.walter at hob.de
Thu May 14 12:26:05 UTC 2009


Hello,

thank you for the fast answer, it's good to hear that I wasn't
totally wrong with my efforts.
I will try some other drivers, but I won't spend too much time.
I think I will buy one of the supported USB sticks.

Best regards

Richard

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Neal Hogan [mailto:nealhogan at gmail.com]
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 14. Mai 2009 13:57
An: Walter, Richard
Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Betreff: Re: Can't get ndis0 working

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
>
> 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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