From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 8 21:39:57 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3912710656F8 for ; Thu, 8 Jan 2009 21:39:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from onemda@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f20.google.com (mail-bw0-f20.google.com [209.85.218.20]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3DEC8FC08 for ; Thu, 8 Jan 2009 21:39:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from onemda@gmail.com) Received: by bwz13 with SMTP id 13so1588108bwz.19 for ; Thu, 08 Jan 2009 13:39:55 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=Vbux586aXktG/NxY2dwHYoKNBQlbH+4fTyjhyggjgqA=; b=JIws7Z2Vwwm7pTtdWD9uwBP4Mt/l0C0IGl7/Z3bRhwoYOZMdPVBqxGqTKRIzwNczre xAvXJgibKUQVFkSByBTy89qMklOHcP2A4si7GUb4o/eFeLr6Lo4Dga+ypxDyMzZ1ShJg UIfkfJbA/r8fqQExjNIQbzBn8XW3sLsdwlIGU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=AfG4HHK2OjnAYToZ/0qqIk4tcqa5p2Nn5NVDHAF59sDgkyFzXlnT6H9NPadguWvc8z TMJj+UDnYjV4K30mFE1PE2fKP85PVlbBjtSLQKC6XlRGcxKyh5AY00QwEgZLXFwMvUH6 689FAp6bX+AVNwmn7FwMa8eUQjyWfcTkmexKs= Received: by 10.223.107.9 with SMTP id z9mr18024604fao.1.1231450795620; Thu, 08 Jan 2009 13:39:55 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.223.115.1 with HTTP; Thu, 8 Jan 2009 13:39:55 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3a142e750901081339l75b0d671j7da7a8e09ea2d464@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 22:39:55 +0100 From: "Paul B. Mahol" To: "Neal Hogan" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <3a142e750901081310n31c83dd0p3b5793e8ad0f618b@mail.gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ndis panic HP pavilion ze4400 won't boot X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:39:57 -0000 On 1/8/09, Neal Hogan wrote: > On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Paul B. Mahol wrote: > >> On 1/8/09, Neal Hogan 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