ndis not working

Ian Larsen drblast at gmail.com
Tue Sep 6 00:00:11 PDT 2005


Thank you for the response.

I'm aware of the ndisgen utility as I tried out the 6-Beta3 release, but it 
doesn't seem to be anywhere in the 5-stable system I have running. I've 
cvsup'd the latest 5-stable source about an hour ago to make sure. There's 
no ndisgen in the source and there's no binary to be found anywhere.

Am I missing something?

Regards,
Ian Larsen


On 9/5/05, Phil Bowens <thermonite at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> There was a thread about this a couple weeks ago. Apparently, ndis module 
> generation has changed.. most documentation sources (e.g. the handbook) 
> have not been updated yet. Try using the 'ndisgen' utility. It is an 
> interactive sh script that [I believe] builds a stub from the XP binaries 
> and then links the kernel module so that it can be loaded directly. I 
> suppose it's a much better solution if you have more than one device using 
> ndis...
> 
> On 9/6/05, Ian Larsen <drblast at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > I just got a new HP ze2000 laptop with a Turion amd64 processor, and 
> > I've
> > got 5-stable running on it. (Updated to stable from 5.4 Release this
> > morning.)
> > 
> > Everything works great except for the wireless card. ndiscvt works 
> > properly, 
> > and the kernel module loads just fine (an improvement over 5.4 release,
> > which paniced on driver load) I've tried a number of different drivers,
> > including:
> > 
> > The generic 64-bit broadcom ones from here:
> > http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/drivers.php
> > 
> > 64 bit drivers from Acer at:
> > ftp://ftp.support.acer-euro.com/notebook/ferrari_4000/driver/winxp64bit/80211g.zip 
> > 
> > 
> > pciconf -lv gives:
> > 
> > none5 at pci5:2:0: class=0x028000 card=0x1355103c chip=0x431814e4 rev=0x02
> > hdr=0x00
> > vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation'
> > class = network
> > 
> > The acer drivers match the chip number exactly, as I found them on the 
> > Ndiswrapper list
> > http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/List (driver #31)
> > 
> > The odd thing is that under Gentoo, the wireless card works just fine 
> > with 
> > Ndiswrapper, using the aforementioned Acer drivers.
> > 
> > To compile, I'm doing
> > iconv -c -f utf-16 -t ascii bcmwl5.inf > bcmwl5.inf.ascii
> > ndiscvt -i bcmwl5.inf.ascii -s BCMWL564.SYS -o ndis_driver_data.o
> > make && make install
> > 
> > And like I mentioned, the drivers compile and load just fine, but the
> > network interface isn't available afterward (ifconfig -a)
> > 
> > Please send any suggestions, I'm not a big fan of Gentoo and I'd really 
> > like 
> > to get FreeBSD fully working on this laptop. :-)
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > Ian Larsen
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> 
> 
> 
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> Phil Bowens
> 
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