NDIS installation problem with WMP54G v4 wireless card

[Texas Consultant]

Thank you for the excellent advice. I converted the .INF file to ASCII from 
UTF-8 (no error was given), re-ndiscvt'd and it works.

Very happy now!

>From: Fabian Keil <freebsd-listen at fabiankeil.de>
>To: "Texas Consultant" <texas_consultant at hotmail.com>
>CC: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>Subject: Re: NDIS installation problem with WMP54G v4 wireless card
>Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 17:18:48 +0100
>
>"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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