El día Wednesday, October 27, 2010 a las 12:07:51PM -0500, Scot Hetzel escribió: > On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 8:58 AM, Alberto Villa <avilla_at_freebsd.org> wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Paul B Mahol <onemda_at_gmail.com> wrote: > >> NDISulator does not support 6.X NDIS API. You will need to find bcmwl5 > >> driver. Note 5 vs 6 in driver name. > >> Editing inf files will give you nothing. > > > > i've tried that driver, but apparently it doesn't support my card... > > loading the .ko doesn't show anything... > > Where did you get your bcmwl5 driver? If you downloaded it from Acer, > it should work. If you downloaded it from anywhere else then this > might be why it didn't work for you. Following Scot's hint (thanks for this) I downloaded today morning the WinXP x86 driver zip archive from www.Acer.com and built the bcmwl5_sys.ko with ndisgen(8). The system panics on early boot stages when the kmod was pulled in via loader.conf. If the system is up, you can kldload the module fine and the interface ndis0 appears and even the card gets associated with the AP (i.e. wpa_supplicant(8) must work fine). The ifconfig(8) shows the interface as: ndis0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 2290 ether 90:4c:e5:00:06:ce media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g status: associated and the Wifi indicator light of the laptop is green. But: # dhclient ndis0 ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): Invalid argument ndis0: not found and the same is with # ifconfig ndis0 192.168.2.200 All this is with a 8-CURRENT kernel/system as of May 2009. I will now build a USB key from HEAD and will continue testing. Thanks matthias -- Matthias Apitz t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e <guru_at_unixarea.de> - w http://www.unixarea.de/Received on Thu Oct 28 2010 - 04:32:53 UTC
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