Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 22:39:55 +0100 From: "Paul B. Mahol" <onemda@gmail.com> To: "Neal Hogan" <nealhogan@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ndis panic HP pavilion ze4400 won't boot Message-ID: <3a142e750901081339l75b0d671j7da7a8e09ea2d464@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <ab7b49bc0901081331k37251760p8134d91ba9e7098d@mail.gmail.com> References: <ab7b49bc0901080837q7df5c835i1c8f1a01d200a146@mail.gmail.com> <3a142e750901081310n31c83dd0p3b5793e8ad0f618b@mail.gmail.com> <ab7b49bc0901081331k37251760p8134d91ba9e7098d@mail.gmail.com>
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On 1/8/09, Neal Hogan <nealhogan@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Paul B. Mahol <onemda@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 1/8/09, Neal Hogan <nealhogan@gmail.com> wrote: >> > 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. >> >> You can enter loader and from there unload bcmwl5_sys, type: unload >> bcmwl5_sys. >> loader is started one step before kernel. >> >> Before ever changing loader.conf you really should test it via kldload(1) >> and report any ndis issues via PR. >> From where you fetched drivers and for what windows version? > > Paul >> > > Paul, > > Thanks for the suggestion! However, it's not working. I've tried *unload > /boot/kernel/bcmwl5_sys.ko* *unload bcmwl5_sys* *unload bcmwl5_sis.ko* > *unload* and they all simply return to the OK prompt (should it tell me > something?). Ah, sorry, "unload" removes all modules. You need after unloading all modules to load kernel and any other modules you want one by one: OK unload bcmwl5_sys OK load kernel OK boot should work. -- Paul
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