ndis with USB wifi dongle - no joy

[Tom K]

Fabian Keil wrote:
> Tom K <tomk at runbox.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> I'm running PC-BSD, with FreeBSD 6 under the hood. The device is a 
>> Netgear MA111, with Prism 2.5 chipset, which dmesg shows as
>>
>> ugen1: vendor 0x0846 product 0x4110, rev 1.10/1.32
>>
>> This is what I've done so far:
>>
>> - Installed the kernel source in /usr/src/sys.
>> - Copied over the .inf and .sys files from the WinXP driver
>> - Run ndisgen, which reported success
>> - Copied the new module to /boot/kernel
>> - kldload ndis and kldload new_module
>>
>> No ndis interface is created, and dmesg shows the following messages:
>>
>> no match for USBD_CreateConfigurationRequestEx
>> no match for USBD_ParseConfigurationDescriptorEx
>>
>> I can't find any reference anywhere to these errors, or anything like 
>> them. I'd be grateful for any suggestions.
>>     
>
> AFAIK ndis doesn't work with USB devices.
>
> Fabian
>   

Thanks Fabian. I thought that might be the case, but I couldn't find a 
definitive 'yes' or 'no' anywhere.

All the best
Tom K.