Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2005 11:15:53 -0400 From: "Mark A-J. Raught (from the laptop)" <mraught@acm.org> To: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: ndis (broadcom) quit working after a cvsup Message-ID: <42C6AFA9.3010103@acm.org>
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So after giving someone advice on how to get ndis working yesterday (it didn't help, but I was confident enough to share my experience), I cvsup and now I think I'm going nuts... first, uname -a: FreeBSD lore 5.4-STABLE FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #16: Sat Jul 2 01:52:13 EDT 2005 flash@lore:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/LORE i386 on a Gateway 7325GZ with a Broadcom BCM43XX (from the NDIS inf file that has been working) I ran cvsup last night from 5.4."probably a month or two ago" to 5.4."Jul2" as shown above. My sound and my ndis quit working as usual (everytime I recompile the kernel I lose ndis and everytime I cvsup I lose the sound) the sound shouldn't be a problem, just diff ac97.c and ac97.h (I'll look at it later) the ndis should also be no problem... So I: go into /sys/modules/ndis and make clean; make; make install; make load go into /sys/modules/if_ndis and make clean; make; make install; make load both with no errors. Everything looks good. I hit fn-<F2> which usually enables my wireless at this point and ndis0 appears in ifconfig -a, just a quick "ifconfig ndis0 up" and it'll all be good. Wait a minute! No ndis0 shows up! Am I missing a step? I'm pretty sure this is all I had to do the last couple times, but now that the laptop is a couple months old I haven't been changing things as much and may have missed a step. ok... I did notice that now kldload ndis or kldload if_ndis both will load the other one. So where I used to kldload ndis then kldload if_ndis, now I kldload ndis without an error, then kldload if_ndis gives: "kldload: can't load if_ndis: File exists" and vice versa... After either is kldloaded, we get [lore] ~# kldstat Id Refs Address Size Name 1 16 0xc0400000 34ec10 kernel 3 1 0xc0753000 587c vesa.ko 4 1 0xc0759000 1b34c linux.ko 7 14 0xc0797000 56270 acpi.ko 8 1 0xc18a7000 2000 blank_saver.ko 12 1 0xc1bbf000 9000 if_ndis.ko 13 1 0xc1bc8000 12000 ndis.ko [lore] ~# so they are loading... I haven't changed my kernel or any other files (except throug mergemaster after the installworld) and I didn't see anything relevant in /usr/src/UPDATING After plenty of playing and googling until 4AM and 4 more hours this morning, I'm stumped. any ideas??? thanks, -mark
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