Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 10:37:05 -0600 From: "Neal Hogan" <nealhogan@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: ndis panic HP pavilion ze4400 won't boot Message-ID: <ab7b49bc0901080837q7df5c835i1c8f1a01d200a146@mail.gmail.com>
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I'm father new to fBSD. I hope this is the appropriate list to send this question to. I just installed 7.1-RELEASE on my HP pavilion and attempted to configure my Broadcom wlan card (BCM94309 version 4.10.40.0) using ndisgen. I cp'd the bcmwl5_sys.ko to /boot/kernel and added *bcmwl5_sys_load="YES"* to my /boot/loader.conf. Now the machine will not boot. It crashes when it reaches the ndis0 line. I've tried booting in all the modes but they all fail to boot. I can escape to prompt, but am unsure what, if anything, I can do in that mode to deal with the situation. With other releases (6.4 and 7.0) the machine would panick when I attempted to ifconfig ndis0. However, I was able to boot in single user mode and temporarily move the rc.conf file so that I cound boot in the default mode. With 7.1, I don't appear to have that option. Is there anything I can do, short of a fresh install, to eliminate this problem? I'm not too worried about getting the wifi up (although, I won't turn down any advice). I just want the machine to boot. Thanks. -- www.nealhogan.net
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