Ndis driver causes kernel problems on boot

[Paul B Mahol]

On 10/13/10, Mark Moellering <mark at msen.com> wrote:
>   On 13-Oct-10 12:47 PM, Paul B Mahol wrote:
>> On 10/13/10, Mark Moellering<mark at msen.com>  wrote:
>>>    I created a driver for my rtl8187 SE in my MSI Wind netbook using
>>> ndisgen.
>>> I placed the driver , rtl8187Se_sys.ko in /boot/modules
>>>
>>> I added rtl8187Se_sys_load="YES" in /boot/loader.conf
>>>
>>> I can kldload rtl8187Se_sys and everything seems OK.
>>> If I reboot, however, I get the following error during boot (truncated
>>> to what I think is the relevant info);
>>>
>>> Fata trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
>>> cpuid = 0; apic id = 00
>>> fault virtual address    = 0xf00032d4
>>> fault code                     = supervisor read, page not present
>>> ...
>>> current process            = 12 (swi4: clock)
>>>
>>> I am a little lost at this point.  If I start in bootloader prompt mode,
>>> I type;
>>> OK>  unload
>>> OK>  load /boot/kernel/kernel
>>> OK>  boot
>>>
>>> and everything works fine.
>>>
>>> Any and all help is appreciated.
>> Some miniport drivers (or newer versions of drivers) tend to cause this.
>> Workaround is to not use loader.conf to load miniport driver (in your
>> case it is rtl8187Se_sys.ko) and instead load them (manually or
>> automatically) after boot.
>>
> OK thanks.  How would I do that exactly (automatically).  I think I need
> to create a shell script to execute the kldload commands but I am not
> sure how/where I should call it.  Thanks for your help.  I am getting a
> little burned out from reading man pages.  Any and all help is apprciated

/etc/rc.local
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Mark Moellering
>