From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 17 15:31:16 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 42D6F16A40F for ; Sun, 17 Sep 2006 15:31:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wmoran@collaborativefusion.com) Received: from mx00.pub.collaborativefusion.com (mx00.pub.collaborativefusion.com [206.210.89.199]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2CEF43D53 for ; Sun, 17 Sep 2006 15:31:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wmoran@collaborativefusion.com) Received: from localhost (monrovll-cuda1-24-53-251-44.pittpa.adelphia.net [24.53.251.44]) (AUTH: LOGIN wmoran, TLS: TLSv1/SSLv3,256bits,AES256-SHA) by wingspan with esmtp; Sun, 17 Sep 2006 11:31:14 -0400 id 00056416.450D6A42.000137BF Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 11:31:11 -0400 From: Bill Moran To: Joel Adamson Message-Id: <20060917113111.8ecda828.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> In-Reply-To: <20060917151544.53937.qmail@web50405.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20060917151544.53937.qmail@web50405.mail.yahoo.com> Organization: Collaborative Fusion X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.20; i386-portbld-freebsd6.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NDIS/KLDload 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, 17 Sep 2006 15:31:16 -0000 Joel Adamson wrote: > Dear List, > > I need to get the internet up and running on my new FreeBSD6.1 install. I'm using a Belkin F5D7050 wireless adapter that is not recognized as a network interface in install. This thing works perfectly with ndiswrapper under linux, which is how I'm writing this message. > > I tried using NDISulator (ndis), following the handbook instructions to the keystroke and when I submit the last step > > kldload if_ndis > > I get "cannot load if_ndis: file exists" > > What does this mean and how do I get it to actually work? It generally means that the indicated kld is already in the kernel. Either it was already loaded, or it was compiled into the kernel. Are you running GENERIC? It doesn't look as if ndis is part of the GENERIC kernel. Try kldstat(8) to see what's loaded. -- Bill Moran That's why I never kiss 'em on the mouth. Jayne Cobb