WLAN, WEP, if_ndis on -CURRENT

[Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko]

On Sun, 2005-01-02 at 20:10 +0100, Lukas Ertl wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2004-12-22 at 16:52 +0100, Lukas Ertl wrote:
> >>
> >> It works fine if I first set wireless params on the interface, and then in
> >> a second step set the IP params.  But if I issue just the one command
> >> shown above - boom.
> >>
> > I have ndis driven (Broadcom-based Belkin F5D7010) card working with
> > -current as of December 17. Only difference in command line is
> >
> > 	ifconfig ... weptxkey 1
> 
> Unfortunately, this doesn't work here.  With a -CURRENT from today, I 
> didn't manage to get my NDIS interface to work, either double fault or the 
> panic I mentioned.
> 
> cheers,
> le
> 
Odd, I am running -CURRENT as of morning (EST) of January 1 and it seems
to work properly. I have both 'device wlan' and 'device wlan_wep'
compiled in and if_ndis.ko loaded.

Just a shot in the dark -- do you rebuild your 'if_ndis.ko' every time
you rebuild your kernel -- I always do it manually:

cd /usr/src/sys/modules/if_ndis;make clean;make;make install

I don't know whether it is mandatory or not, but I have vague
recollection of being burned by not doing this. Might no longer be
necessary (if it ever was) though.

At this point, hopefully somebody who knows this stuff will chime in if
only to scold me for giving stupid suggestions ;)

-- 
Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko (Олександр Коваленко)