64-bit Windows XP NDIS drivers giving missing symbols

[Gautham Ganapathy]

On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 1:16 AM, Jerry <freebsd.user at seibercom.net> wrote:

> On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 18:45:24 +0000
> Paul B Mahol <onemda at gmail.com> articulated:
>
>
> > On 7/24/10, Jerry <freebsd.user at seibercom.net> wrote:
> > > On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 12:01:24 +0000
> > > Paul B Mahol <onemda at gmail.com> articulated:
> > >
> > >> Such symbols are completly irrelevant for normal operation, because
> > >> NDISulator crash on amd64 during driver initialization.
> > >> I fixed this in my own git repo, but "fpudna in kernel mode" (my
> > >> understanding is that it is source of panic when trying to use ndis0
> > >> device on amd64), present only on amd64 is still not yet fixed - this
> > >> should be addressed with fpu_kern KPI available on CURRENT - not done
> > >> yet...
> > >> Feel free to send patches.
> > >
> > > I feel his pain. I need 64 bit drivers for cards that FBSD does not
> > > support, mostly 'N' protocol wireless cards. The inability to secure
> > > and use perfectly good drivers that are available for Windows users in
> > > FreeBSD is a real PIA. Of course, it does give my Window user friends
> > > something to laugh about.
> >
> > And bwn(4) doesn't work at all?
>
> <quote>
> bwn -- Broadcom BCM43xx IEEE 802.11b/g wireless network driver
> </quote>
>
> You will notice that there is no 'n' in the description. In any case,
> it is limited to 'broadcom' chips.
>
> --
> Jerry ✌
> FreeBSD.user at seibercom.net
>

Nope, bwn did not work. The man page mentioned a port that also had to be
installed. It had two modules, which I put in loader.conf one at a time
along with if_bwn.ko, but still no luck.

The card I have has a Broadcom 4353 chipset.  I think it is b/g/n.

Regards
Gautham