ndis not working

[Ian Larsen]

Whoops,

I had forgotten to installworld. It's late...

Thanks for your help.

-Ian Larsen

On 9/6/05, Ian Larsen <drblast at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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 5.4release,
> > > 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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> > 
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Phil Bowens
> > 
> > He who is the greatest of warriors overcomes and subdues himself. 
> 
> 
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