64-bit Windows XP NDIS drivers giving missing symbols

Paul B Mahol onemda at gmail.com
Sat Jul 24 18:45:26 UTC 2010


On 7/24/10, Jerry <freebsd.user at seibercom.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 12:01:24 +0000
> Paul B Mahol <onemda at gmail.com> articulated:
>
>> Such symbols are completly irrelevant for normal operation, because
>> NDISulator crash on amd64 during driver initialization.
>> I fixed this in my own git repo, but "fpudna in kernel mode" (my
>> understanding is that it is source of panic when trying to use ndis0
>> device on amd64), present only on amd64 is still not yet fixed - this
>> should be addressed with fpu_kern KPI available on CURRENT - not done
>> yet...
>> Feel free to send patches.
>
> I feel his pain. I need 64 bit drivers for cards that FBSD does not
> support, mostly 'N' protocol wireless cards. The inability to secure
> and use perfectly good drivers that are available for Windows users in
> FreeBSD is a real PIA. Of course, it does give my Window user friends
> something to laugh about.

And bwn(4) doesn't work at all?


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