NDIS installation problem with WMP54G v4 wireless card

[Fabian Keil]

"Texas Consultant" <texas_consultant at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Just put together a new BSD 5.3 machine, and compiled NDIS for use with a 
> Linksys WMP54g v4 card; it's a wireless card that uses the Ralink RT2500 
> chipset.
> 
> Everything works so far; major steps are:
> 
> 1. make ndis
> 2. copy over NDIS driver files
> 3. make if_ndis
> 4. kldload ndis
> 
> However, kldload if_ndis returns an error:
> 
> /sbin/kldload -v /usr/src/sys/modules/if_ndis/if_ndis.ko
> kldload: can't load
> link_elf: symbol rt2500_sys_drv_data_start undefined
> /usr/src/sys/modules/if_ndis/if_ndis.ko: No such file or directory
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop in /usr/src/sys/modules/if_ndis.

I had a similar problem after updating from 5.3 to 5.4-PRERELEASE.
I rebuilded if_ndis, but forgot to first recreate ndis_driver_data.h.

After rebuilding ndis_driver_data.h with the right sources it worked again.

Could your sources by out of sync with the system?

Fabian
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