FreeBSD 5.4 ndis support

[Bryan Maynard]

I've been having issues with ndis myself. However, I got some help and things 
are going good for me, except that i haven't gotten DHCP to work for the 
card. . .

Anyway, there is a utility in 5.4 (I think that's that's where it showed up) 
called "ndisgen". Running ndisgen steps you through a wonderful little script 
that asks for for the location of your INF and SYS files, generates you .h 
file and kernel module.

I was getting the same "No such file or directory" error until I ran ndisgen.

Give it a try. :-D

Bryan

On Sunday 03 July 2005 10:10 am, Tobias Tom wrote:
 Hello everyone,
 
 I'm using FreeBSD for some years now. I've read the german Mailinglist
 for nearly the same time. But I've got a Problem which no one can
 reproduce, or no one know any solution.
 
 I want to use my Level One wnc 0301 WLAN PCI Card in my FreeBSD box
 with acts as a Router in my small Home Network.
 I've found no drivers or buildin support for that Card. Google, and
 the Manufactor told me that it is using the raltech rt2500 chip. I
 found a page where someone builds a driver for FreeBSD CURRENT, but it
 is not portable for the 5.x branch.
 
 Someone told me that I could use the ndis Feature which occured in
 FreeBSD 5.3. I'm not sure how happy I am with Windows Drivers on my
 FreeBSD Box, but for now i don't see any alternative.
 
 So I tried to get ndis Support up like it is described inside the
 Manual, and inside the first commit Message of the Files. Building
 seems to work really fine. I've created the ndis_driver_data.h from my
 driver INF and Driver SYS. Ran make && make install and everything was
 finished without any error.
 
 Then I tried to load the ndis support with "kldload ndis". It results
 into the following Error Message: "kldload: can't load ndis: No such
 file or directory" So I looked it the file is really not existing. But
 it exists, ls output is:
 "-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  91686 Jul  3 15:37
 /usr/src/sys/modules/ndis/ndis.ko"
 So I looked into dmesg and saw the following Error:
 
 link_elf: symbol VOP_GETATTR_APV undefined
 KLD if_ndis.ko: depends on ndisapi - not available
 
 After I could not get something usefull out for me (others might be
 more successfull ;o) I looked again into the man page of ndis. Under
 Synopsis the following lines are written down:
 options NDISAPI
 device ndis
 device wlan
 
 So I though when i cannot build ndis as module, or maybe the ndisapi
 come directly from the kernel, i could build my custom kernel with
 these options. It stoped with these Lines:
 
 cc -c -O -pipe  -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs
 -Wstrict-prototypes  -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline
 -Wcast-qual  -fformat-extensions -std=c99  -nostdinc -I-  -I.
 -I/usr/src/sys -I/usr/src/sys/contrib/dev/acpica
 -I/usr/src/sys/contrib/altq -I/usr/src/sys/contrib/ipfilter
 -I/usr/src/sys/contrib/pf -I/usr/src/sys/contrib/dev/ath
 -I/usr/src/sys/contrib/dev/ath/freebsd -I/usr/src/sys/contrib/ngatm
 -I/usr/src/sys/dev/twa -D_KERNEL -include opt_global.h -fno-common
 -finline-limit=8000 --param inline-unit-growth=100 --param
 large-function-growth=1000  -mno-align-long-strings
 -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2  -mno-mmx -mno-3dnow -mno-sse -mno-sse2
 -ffreestanding -Werror  /usr/src/sys/compat/ndis/subr_ntoskrnl.c
 /usr/src/sys/compat/ndis/subr_ntoskrnl.c: In function `KeRemoveQueueDpc':
 /usr/src/sys/compat/ndis/subr_ntoskrnl.c:3115: warning: dereferencing
 `void *' pointer
 /usr/src/sys/compat/ndis/subr_ntoskrnl.c:3115: error: request for
 member `mtx_lock' in something not a structure or union
 /usr/src/sys/compat/ndis/subr_ntoskrnl.c:3115: warning: dereferencing
 `void *' pointer
 /usr/src/sys/compat/ndis/subr_ntoskrnl.c:3115: error: request for
 member `mtx_recurse' in something not a structure or union
 /usr/src/sys/compat/ndis/subr_ntoskrnl.c:3115: warning: dereferencing
 `void *' pointer
 /usr/src/sys/compat/ndis/subr_ntoskrnl.c:3115: error: request for
 member `mtx_lock' in something not a structure or union
 /usr/src/sys/compat/ndis/subr_ntoskrnl.c:3117: warning: dereferencing
 `void *' pointer
 /usr/src/sys/compat/ndis/subr_ntoskrnl.c:3117: error: request for
 member `mtx_recurse' in something not a structure or union
 /usr/src/sys/compat/ndis/subr_ntoskrnl.c:3117: warning: dereferencing
 `void *' pointer
 /usr/src/sys/compat/ndis/subr_ntoskrnl.c:3117: error: request for
 member `mtx_recurse' in something not a structure or union
 /usr/src/sys/compat/ndis/subr_ntoskrnl.c:3117: warning: dereferencing
 `void *' pointer
 /usr/src/sys/compat/ndis/subr_ntoskrnl.c:3117: error: request for
 member `mtx_lock' in something not a structure or union
 /usr/src/sys/compat/ndis/subr_ntoskrnl.c:3123: warning: dereferencing
 `void *' pointer
 /usr/src/sys/compat/ndis/subr_ntoskrnl.c:3123: error: request for
 member `mtx_recurse' in something not a structure or union
 /usr/src/sys/compat/ndis/subr_ntoskrnl.c:3123: warning: dereferencing
 `void *' pointer
 /usr/src/sys/compat/ndis/subr_ntoskrnl.c:3123: error: request for
 member `mtx_recurse' in something not a structure or union
 /usr/src/sys/compat/ndis/subr_ntoskrnl.c:3123: warning: dereferencing
 `void *' pointer
 /usr/src/sys/compat/ndis/subr_ntoskrnl.c:3123: error: request for
 member `mtx_lock' in something not a structure or union
 *** Error code 1
 Stop in /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GATE.
 *** Error code 1
 Stop in /usr/src.
 *** Error code 1
 Stop in /usr/src.
 
 Building my custom Kernel without the three Lines worked wonderfull.
 So I have really no Idea what I can do next. Maybe here's someone how
 knows any step i missed, or which Problem can couse the Error.
 It is not very Importent for me it the ndis support runs in he kernel
 or as module... main issue is to get this damm card to work ;o)
 
 Maybe this might be usefull, too. Just did a cvsup for about 10
 Minutes and got the same error. The only part which I added to my
 custom kernel config is the IPFW Part.
 
 Just some short words about FreeBSD Current. I've booted with the june
 snapshot and the card was detechted fine.
 
 Please don't let my stay in the rain with this Problem. ;o)
 
 Regards
 
 Tobias
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