Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 15:32:30 +0200 From: Svein Halvor Halvorsen <svein.h@lvor.halvorsen.cc> To: Tom K <tomk@runbox.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ndis with USB wifi dongle - no joy Message-ID: <4474606E.6090201@lvor.halvorsen.cc> In-Reply-To: <44742C33.1070300@runbox.com> References: <447399DD.9040703@runbox.com> <20060524103443.3e7dde3a@localhost> <44741FA9.2060905@runbox.com> <44742C33.1070300@runbox.com>
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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig124FB97870FCF403574C9D64 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Tom K wrote: >>>> I'm running PC-BSD, with FreeBSD 6 under the hood. The device is a >>>> Netgear MA111, with Prism 2.5 chipset, which dmesg shows as >>>> >>>> ugen1: vendor 0x0846 product 0x4110, rev 1.10/1.32 >>>> >>>> This is what I've done so far: >>>> >>>> - Installed the kernel source in /usr/src/sys. >>>> - Copied over the .inf and .sys files from the WinXP driver >>>> - Run ndisgen, which reported success >>>> - Copied the new module to /boot/kernel >>>> - kldload ndis and kldload new_module >>>> >>>> No ndis interface is created, and dmesg shows the following messages= : >>>> >>>> no match for USBD_CreateConfigurationRequestEx >>>> no match for USBD_ParseConfigurationDescriptorEx >>>> >>>> I can't find any reference anywhere to these errors, or anything >>>> like them. I'd be grateful for any suggestions. : > Minor update, if anyone's interested - I've now tried it on freebsd 6.1= , > with the same result. Windows NDIS device drivers work because the co-called Project Evil is emulating the NDIS subsystem of Windows, effectively tricking these drivers into believing they run under Windows. However, to support Windows drivers for USB networking devices, would require emulation of the USB subsystem in Windows as well. This is not the case for FreeBSD today. Svein Halvor --------------enig124FB97870FCF403574C9D64 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) Comment: mailto:pgpkey@svein.halvorsen.cc to get my PGP-key iD8DBQFEdGBuhQg3vZGYu0ARAuOSAJ9jWaZpmJbD9qa58NPIwcoMQS65NwCgqAqo G54s8O72DD2xZWPdYehN/C4= =FCf1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig124FB97870FCF403574C9D64--
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