Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 16:08:14 -0500 From: Don Hinton <don.hinton@vanderbilt.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Atanas Atanasov <thenasko@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Problem with wireless card drivers Message-ID: <200606011608.14921.don.hinton@vanderbilt.edu> In-Reply-To: <ab7676e40606011303h1612dd7fg@mail.gmail.com> References: <000801c68312$4d2e5590$0201a8c0@AMD1700> <447F6FBF.5070503@gmail.com> <ab7676e40606011303h1612dd7fg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thursday 01 June 2006 15:03, Atanas Atanasov wrote: > Are you sure one should use ndiscvt? I mean i tried it the same except > for getting pccarddefs.h (which as they say will be used in eventual > kernel compiles) and for synchronising the source which I cannot do > because no network is available. I have wireless only connection. > > Most people say that ndisgen is the "better" method as from 6.0. > Actually it seems due to unknown reasons the old method is not > supported anymore. I have an hp nx9600 with a similar (or same) card, and ndisgen worked fine. I didn't modify rc.conf, but instead use kldload to load the module when I need it. Here's what I do: # kldunload /root/bcmwl5_sys.ko #dmesg ... ndis0: <Broadcom 802.11b/g WLAN> mem 0xc8206000-0xc8207fff irq 17 at device 3.0 on pci11 ndis0: NDIS API version: 5.1 ndis0: Ethernet address: 00:90:4b:af:7f:68 What does dmesg tell you when you try to load the module? hth... don > > Atanas > _______________________________________________ > 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" -- Don Hinton <don.hinton at vanderbilt.edu> tel: 615.480.5667 ISIS, Vanderbilt University skype: donhinton http://people.vanderbilt.edu/~don.hinton/
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