Quote:
Originally Posted by LateNiteTV
i believe the driver for the bcm94309 is included in freebsd 8.0 as a beta...
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Yea, well I don't think I am skilled enough to start running a CURRENT build of FreeBSD.
So, I tried using ndisgen to create the kernel module for my wireless card driver (from the Windows .inf and .sys files). It successfully created the .ko, so I loaded that, however
no ndis0 device shows up.
> kldstat
Code:
Id Refs Address Size Name
1 17 0xc0400000 906518 kernel
2 1 0xc0d07000 9778c bcmwl5_sys.ko
3 3 0xc0d9f000 1aa10 ndis.ko
4 2 0xc0dba000 e750 if_ndis.ko
5 1 0xc0dc9000 6a32c acpi.ko
6 1 0xc3295000 22000 linux.ko
7 1 0xc32e4000 4000 logo_saver.ko
> ifconfig
Code:
bfe0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
options=8<VLAN_MTU>
ether 00:0b:db:9c:d5:c4
inet6 fe80::20b:dbff:fe9c:d5c4%bfe0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
media: Ethernet autoselect (none)
status: no carrier
fwe0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
options=8<VLAN_MTU>
ether 02:c0:4f:67:94:61
ch 1 dma -1
fwip0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
lladdr 0.c0.4f.4a.20.67.94.61.a.2.ff.fe.0.0.0.0
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000