Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 16:49:40 +0000 From: Miguel Clara <miguelmclara@gmail.com> To: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> Cc: Thomas Mueller <mueller6724@bellsouth.net>, freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Freebsd 11 current testing ndis / kldload: bcmwl564_sys.ko PANIC Message-ID: <CADGo8CXOB_CC-DAG_0LUvN_6iU0NbL6g0Mr2fkBW_Fyjkz_EQQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAJ-VmonyrUEYRkY8KrJziHv8%2Bb5oaYxmHOzqqyiScgPc9%2Bb9MA@mail.gmail.com> References: <CADGo8CVGhPXvho-xSfJAjLxe5rc%2B4QYPCJLcDHjmQRogDZNntA@mail.gmail.com> <CAJ-VmoknZioM8mWFFJEdJgKeB6ixQFFqyyQAZgX-ALB-iHLKEg@mail.gmail.com> <CADGo8CUyayK05zC9oJQfMd69rW6noytJrDqGgEa-LQaudvOEbA@mail.gmail.com> <CAJ-VmokZZ6em=P%2Bm-eKB6AexNc14pP9axA9EuxD8vHYcapJFxQ@mail.gmail.com> <CADGo8CUpTvuBya2aF4P5DUhVLfjg0c%2BR3enNW=YdqOeWUCeN3g@mail.gmail.com> <610447.24251.bm@smtp117.sbc.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <CAJ-VmonyrUEYRkY8KrJziHv8%2Bb5oaYxmHOzqqyiScgPc9%2Bb9MA@mail.gmail.com>
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NOTE: tried NDISulator
pciconf -lv | grep -i bcm -B2
none2@pci0:13:0:0: class=0x028000 card=0x145c103c chip=0x472714e4
rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation'
device = 'BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller'
# ndisload -p -s /home/user/bcmWireless/bcmwl564.sys -n bcmw -v 0x14e4 -d 0x4721
and get this in dmesg:
NDIS: no match for ZwQueryInformationFile
I'll report it in the github page, but it seems its not working!
# tail /var/log/messages
Jan 24 16:44:37 hpbsd kernel: NDIS: no match for ZwQueryInformationFile
Jan 24 16:46:10 hpbsd kernel: NDIS: no match for ZwQueryInformationFile
Jan 24 16:48:27 hpbsd kernel: Warning: memory type ndis_ntoskrnl
leaked memory on destroy (8 allocations, 2304 bytes leaked).
On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 1:59 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> wrote:
> ... who's the author of this? Why aren't they posting updates to
> FreeBSD-HEAD so it can be included in the base system?
>
> Does anyone have a contact email for the author, Vadislav?
>
>
> -a
>
>
> On 24 January 2014 03:52, Thomas Mueller <mueller6724@bellsouth.net> wrote:
>> To Miguel Clara, you might try a USB wireless adapter. I use Hiro H50191, driver rsu.
>>
>> But you would need to do good research to find what the chip is, and which FreeBSD driver, if any, would it work with, before you buy.
>>
>> NDISulator looks worth trying. FreeBSD users will want to know if it works.
>>
>> https://github.com/NDISulator/ndisulator
>>
>> Regarding deprecation of NDIS, is it a matter of something that is compatible with Linux but very difficult to port to BSD?
>>
>> There is the problem with newer MS-Windows drivers that they don't come with .sys and .inf files, or maybe they have to be unpacked and installed from MS-Windows. Then NDIS would have nothing to work with.
>>
>> Tom
>>
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