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Date:      Sat, 15 Jan 2011 20:38:19 +0000
From:      Paul B Mahol <onemda@gmail.com>
To:        Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ndis-based network driver fails to load at boot (8.2-PRERELEASE)
Message-ID:  <AANLkTi=sNe4dffhEjqL%2BiDPWYXdJEzpZpp71fck46cXr@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 1:19 AM, Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com> wrote:
> I have the old module that always worked.
> Begining from some update (~8.1-STABLE), it stopped loading at boot time
> with the messages:
> <...skipped...>
> module ndis already present
> KLD file bcmwl5_sys.ko is missing dependencies
> <...skipped...>
>
> /boot/loader.conf has this line that is supposed to, and was loading the
> module:
> bcmwl5_sys_load="YES"
>
> Rebuilding the driver from Windows version with the current ndisgen doesn't
> change anything.
> Loading this module by hand (kldload) after system boots succeeds and it
> runs fine. Although it also says: module ndis already present
>
> Why it fails to load at boot?

Do you load ndis and if_ndis via loader.conf too?



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