Re: My wIreless support (ndisulator & Dell TrueMobile 1400) has stopped working on current... pointers welcome.

From: Maxim Konovalov <maxim_at_macomnet.ru>
Date: Sun, 1 May 2005 18:28:15 +0400 (MSD)
On Sun, 1 May 2005, 10:22-0400, Jeff Racine wrote:

> Hi.
>
> I have been successfully using the ndis/ndisulator drivers with a Dell
> TrueMobile 1400 WLAN PCI card on an X300... my previous current build
> was March 1, 2005, and things have been rock solid.
>
> Today I rebuilt world with a fresh cvsup, and now have lost wireless
> support. As always after building all, I did  cd /sys/modules/if_ndis &&
> ndiscvt -i bcmwl5a.inf -s bcmwl5.sys -o ndis_driver_data.h && make &&
> make install, however, thought this appears to compile just fine, upon
> reboot this is no longer recognized and the only message I get is pci2:
> <network> at device 4.0 (no driver attached).
>
> Yesterday (before new build), I got
>
> ndis0: <Dell TrueMobile 1400 Dual Band WLAN Mini-PCI Card> mem
> 0xe0210000-0xe0211fff irq 5 at device 4.0 on pci2
>
> I tried to find any relevant changes in /usr/src/UPDATING and scoured
> current and mobile, but to no avail. I saw the posts about potential
> changes to these drivers, but nowhere any indication that changes have
> been made (that I found at least).
>
> If by chance I have missed something (post etc.) please forgive,
> however, any pointers would be gratefully appreciated.

http://tinyurl.com/cc8ks
man ndisgen

HTH

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Maxim Konovalov
Received on Sun May 01 2005 - 12:28:17 UTC

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