broadcom wireless card on FB7 using ndisgen, no ndis0 after kldload

[Glen Barber]

On Wednesday 30 January 2008 07:18:51 pm Kemian Dang wrote:

> I have a laptop which using the broadcom wireless card.
> I download the bcmwl5a.inf/.sys and use ndisgen to generate the .ko
> file, then I kldload it as the doc said.
> I can see ndis,if_ndis and bcmwl using kldstat, but there are no ndis0
> when ifconfig.
> I have tried add the bcmwl to the /boot/loader.conf, but still no ndis0.
> And there no message in the dmesg about the ndis.
>

Did you copy the bcmxxx.ko file to /book/kernel/ ?  If you did, make sure you 
have an entry in your /boot/loader.conf: 
bcmxxx_load="YES"

I have my bcm driver called 'bcmwl5_sys.ko' and 'bcmwl5_sys_load="YES" in 
my /boot/loader.conf.

Hope that helps

-- 
Glen Barber