broadcom wireless card on FB7 using ndisgen,
no ndis0 after kldload
Kemian Dang
dangkm at gmail.com
Thu Jan 31 07:18:47 PST 2008
Vince Hoffman 写道:
> Kemian Dang wrote:
>
>> Glen Barber 写道:
>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Yes, mine is bcmwl5a_sys.ko and I have tried to put it in the
>> loader.conf. Actually, it is in the loader.conf now. I list it below:
>>
>> %ls /boot/modules/bcmwl*
>> /boot/modules/bcmwl5a_sys.ko
>> %more /boot/loader.conf
>> nvidia_load="yes"
>> bcmwl5a_sys_load="yes"
>>
>> Does "yes" differ from "YES"?
>>
>>
>
> I think YES and yes are interchangeable although YES tends to be used.
>
> whats the output of kldstat?
> if it doesnt contain ndis.ko what happens if you
> kldload ndis
>
> Vince
>
>
>
>
>
>> Best wishes,
>> Kemian
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Below is the output of kldstat:
%kldstat
Id Refs Address Size Name
1 21 0xc0400000 5c0690 kernel
2 1 0xc09c1000 69415c nvidia.ko
3 2 0xc1056000 28518 linux.ko
4 1 0xc107f000 5f7a4 bcmwl5a_sys.ko
5 3 0xc10df000 1aa10 ndis.ko
6 2 0xc10fa000 e750 if_ndis.ko
7 1 0xc1109000 6a1c4 acpi.ko
8 1 0xc520e000 2000 ntfs_iconv.ko
9 1 0xc5210000 4000 libiconv.ko
10 1 0xc5235000 b000 ntfs.ko
It has the bcmwl5a_sys.ko, ndis.ko and if_ndis.ko.
Best wishes,
Kemian
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