Re: Freebsd 11 current testing ndis / kldload: bcmwl564_sys.ko PANIC

From: Adrian Chadd <adrian_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 05:59:00 -0800
... 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_at_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
>
Received on Fri Jan 24 2014 - 12:59:01 UTC

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