From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 22 00:06:48 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF96516A416 for ; Sun, 22 Oct 2006 00:06:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pbowen@fastmail.fm) Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com (out1.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DE2543D53 for ; Sun, 22 Oct 2006 00:06:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pbowen@fastmail.fm) Received: from db2.internal (db2.internal [10.202.2.12]) by frontend1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A68EDB823B for ; Sat, 21 Oct 2006 20:06:46 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by db2.internal (MEProxy); Sat, 21 Oct 2006 20:06:49 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: Sl0b6DRFAe3mrYU1+krDpalWnCDFHJBd8BzrzsMnx6j1 1161475609 Received: from [10.51.25.122] (unknown [204.110.228.254]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3DA813F8E for ; Sat, 21 Oct 2006 20:06:48 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <453AFC5C.3080806@fastmail.fm> Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 00:06:36 -0500 From: Patrick Bowen User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20061012) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <200610211852.46359.lane@joeandlane.com> In-Reply-To: <200610211852.46359.lane@joeandlane.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Wireless Inspiron 6400 anyone? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 00:06:48 -0000 Lane wrote: > Hello, > > I've a new inspiron 6400 running FreeBSD 6.1 and I can't get Wireless to work. > It works on WXP using the Dell WLAN drivers at > http://ftp.us.dell.com/network/R115321.EXE > > I've followed the instructions at > http://dannyman.toldme.com/2005/01/05/freebsd-howto-ndisulate-windows-drivers/ > but no ndis driver shows up after kldload if_ndis. > > ifconfig -a looks like: > > bfe0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 > options=8 > inet6 fe80::215:c5ff:feb8:39e%bfe0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 > inet 172.16.1.42 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 172.16.1.255 > ether 00:15:c5:b8:03:9e > media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX ) > status: active > fwe0: flags=108943 > mtu 1500 > options=8 > inet6 fe80::304f:c0ff:fe9c:7541%fwe0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2 > inet 0.0.0.0 netmask 0xff000000 broadcast 255.255.255.255 > ether 32:4f:c0:9c:75:41 > ch 1 dma 0 > lo0: flags=8049 mtu 16384 > inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 > inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3 > inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 > > It seems as if the fwe0 devices wants to be the wireless, as the bfe0 driver > is my "wired" ethernet card. > ...snip... > Any help is appreciated. > > lane > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Lane; When I did the same thing for a Broadcom wireless card the resulting loadable module was named "bcmwl5_sys". Did you end up with something appropriate to your .sys and .inf files? Also, the .sys and .inf files that came on the disk that came with the card either wouldn't work with ndisgen, or gave a file that didn't work with the card. I ended up using the .sys and .inf files from the Dell website that were reference in another ndis article. Good Luck. Patrick