Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 22:17:45 -0600 From: Eric F Crist <ecrist@secure-computing.net> To: Eric F Crist <ecrist@secure-computing.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NDIS (for Netgear WG311) How-To? Message-ID: <C1D1CFF8-5A19-11D9-8385-000D9333E43C@secure-computing.net> In-Reply-To: <C51C46B5-5A18-11D9-8385-000D9333E43C@secure-computing.net> References: <3C5D2686-5A0E-11D9-8385-000D9333E43C@secure-computing.net> <1104378755l.2101l.2l@BARTON> <C51C46B5-5A18-11D9-8385-000D9333E43C@secure-computing.net>
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--Apple-Mail-3--628469505 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed On Dec 29, 2004, at 10:10 PM, Eric F Crist wrote: > On Dec 29, 2004, at 9:52 PM, jason henson wrote: > >> On 12/29/04 21:55:17, Eric F Crist wrote: >>> Hello list, >>> I'm looking at trying to get a new WG311 Netgear wifi adapter >>> working, and have discovered that the v2 cards use the Texas >>> Instruments chipset. From what I understand, I need to get this >>> working with the NDIS support in FreeBSD 5.3. Is there a good >>> document out there on how to get this working? I've been farting >>> around with the man pages and can't seem to get things right. >>> Thanks for the help. >>> _______________________________________________________ >>> Eric F Crist "I am so smart, S.M.R.T!" >>> Secure Computing Networks -Homer J Simpson >> What have you got it to do so far, what command did you use, what >> drivers did you use, any output you could post? >> >> I used the man page and it was pretty easy, I just used the man page >> for the command syntax and what files I would need. Didn't have to >> read much beyond that, but I did anyway. > > Well, here's what I've done so far: > > 1) Copied the netwg311.sys and wg311v2.inf files frome the Windows > 2000 folder from the distribution CD-ROM. > > 2) Ran ndiscvt -i /home/ecrist/wg311v2.inf -s > /home/ecrist/netwg311.sys -o ndis_driver_data.h as root > > 3) Copied ndis_driver_data.h to the /usr/src/sys directory. > > 4) Added the following lines to my custom kernel config (GROG) > options NDISAPO > device ndis > > 5) Ran (from /usr/src) make buildkernel KERNCONF=GROG > > 6) Ran (from /usr/src) make installkernel KERNCONF=GROG > > 7) Rebooted (no ndis0 listing in ifconfig output) > > Any idea what I did wrong? > > Thanks. WAIT! I've found something. Here's a snippet from dmesg: ndis0: <NETGEAR WG311v2 802.11g Wireless PCI Adapter> mem 0xec800000-0xec81ffff,0xed000000-0xed001fff irq 17 at device 14.0 on pci0 ndis0: NDIS API version: 5.0 NDIS: could not find file FwRad16.bin in linker list NDIS: and no filesystems mounted yet, aborting NdisOpenFile() ndis0: init handler failed Any ideas about that? Thanks. _______________________________________________________ Eric F Crist "I am so smart, S.M.R.T!" Secure Computing Networks -Homer J Simpson --Apple-Mail-3--628469505 content-type: application/pgp-signature; x-mac-type=70674453; name=PGP.sig content-description: This is a digitally signed message part content-disposition: inline; filename=PGP.sig content-transfer-encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Darwin) iEYEARECAAYFAkHTgWkACgkQRAAY9knOW+oIuQCeORVuOfoNQruvgzxt6yIREnhF +UoAn2VcXBm8D0GMVppV/VmCmtVPIV60 =U7im -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Apple-Mail-3--628469505--
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