Does NDISulator work on amd64? Has anyone made this work?
Norberto Meijome
freebsd at meijome.net
Mon May 15 23:09:55 PDT 2006
On Mon, 15 May 2006 22:33:55 -0600
Lorin Lund <wbs at infowest.com> wrote:
> I have a Compac Presario V2607CL notebook with a Turion chip. I have
> 6.1-RELEASE for amd64 loaded.
> It is running fine. But I'm trying toget the built in Broadcom wireless
> working.
>
> I downloaded the driver from hp.com. The .INF file was over 600K but
> most of that was multiple language
> support. (The INF file was in UNICODE). I hacked out all the strings
> for languages I wasn't interested in and
> the whole thing shrunk down to around 47K after I stored it as text
> rather than as UNICODE.
>
> After thus fixing up the INF file ndiscvt had no complaint and created a
> header file. The make on the
> kernel module proceeded without error messages. There is now an
> "ndis.ko" file in /boot/kernel.
>
> But when I do
> ifconfig ndis0
> I get an error message saying that there is no ndis0 interface. I don't
> know what my next step should be.
Hi Lorin, you may want to ask in freebsd-amd64 at freebsd.org
regards,
Beto
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