NDIS panics (Was: Can I rescan for new PCI devices? Or should hotplugging Expresscards work?)

[Paul B Mahol]

On 1/11/10, Bob Johnson <fbsdlists at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/9/10, Paul B Mahol <onemda at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 12/16/09, Bob Johnson <fbsdlists at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I'm using an ExpressCard for wireless networking because there seems
>>> to be no driver for the internal card in my laptop (and NDIS panics
>>> the system). The Expresscard shows up as a PCI device and works fine,
>>
>> How are you using NDIS and when system panic what is displayed?
>
> I tried to use ndisgen with the internal Dell 1397 card. I don't have
> details available right now, although if you need them I can try it
> again. When I did the kldload the system spit out error messages about
> unknown symbols and then panic-ed. I did some searching of the
> archives and found a message describing the same symptoms, and the
> response posted was that it indicated that the Windows driver made API
> calls that were not implemented in the NDIS wrapper.
>
> This was a 64-bit Windows driver and an amd64 FreeBSD system. Similar
> results in both
> FreeBSD 7.2 and 8.0.
>
> It appears that kern/132672 is describing the same or a very similar
> issue.  It also suggests that there is a more fundamental problem than
> the unrecognized symbols.
>
> I can try to reproduce the problem tonight if you want me to.
>
> Thanks,

If you have debug kernel, then make breakpoint for MSCALL2 (kldload
ndis.ko before that): `break MSCALL2'
Then load ndisgen module.

Then single step it with `s' it should panic after few steps.
At least this is issue I'm experiencing on amd64, it fails in DriverEntry().

-- 
Paul B Mahol