From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 28 08:08:18 2004 Return-Path: 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 EE00D16A4CE for ; Tue, 28 Dec 2004 08:08:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: from vs3.bgnett.no (vs3.bgnett.no [194.54.96.185]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 462BF43D49 for ; Tue, 28 Dec 2004 08:08:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from peter@bgnett.no) Received: from amidala.datadok.no.bgnett.no (amidala.datadok.no [194.54.103.98]) by vs3.bgnett.no (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id iBS87x5n049795 for ; Tue, 28 Dec 2004 09:08:00 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from peter@bgnett.no) Sender: peter@amidala.datadok.no To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <200412280146.iBS1kIsI017992@mp.cs.niu.edu> From: peter@bgnett.no (Peter N. M. Hansteen) Date: 28 Dec 2004 09:07:48 +0100 In-Reply-To: <200412280146.iBS1kIsI017992@mp.cs.niu.edu> Message-ID: <86mzvyu9pn.fsf@amidala.datadok.no> Lines: 26 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-bgnett.no-virusscanner: Found to be clean X-Envelope-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NDIS and Dell (Broadcom) WLAN 1450 Dual Band card X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 08:08:19 -0000 Scott Bennett writes: > I got no responses to my question about existence of a driver for the > wireless networking card mentioned in the Subject: line, so I guess I'll > try the NDIS route. If your kernel recognizes the device, it should show up in your dmesg. For NDIS help, try man ndis. It really is quite helpful > In the Windows XP file system, I find BCMWL5.SYS in > \WINDOWS\system32/DRIVERS, but I find bcmwl5.inf (note lower case name; not > found as upper case) in quite a few directories in the directory trees under > \DELL\drivers\R63259\TMSetup and \DELL\drivers\R81836. Which, if any, of > these is the correct file to use in creating an NDIS driver for > FreeBSD? Have you tried comparing the files (with diff or similar) to see if they are simply copies of each other? In the cases I've seen, the driver installer at least keeps copies of the .sys and the .inf file in a directory together. After installation in a Microsoft file system that may of course no longer be the case. -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http://www.datadok.no/ http://www.nuug.no/ "First, we kill all the spammers" The Usenet Bard, "Twice-forwarded tales"