Re: NDIS and Dell (Broadcom) WLAN 1450 Dual Band card
Scott Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I got no responses to my question about existence of a driver for the wireless networking card mentioned in the Subject: line, so I guess I'll try the NDIS route. If your kernel recognizes the device, it should show up in your dmesg. For NDIS help, try man ndis. It really is quite helpful In the Windows XP file system, I find BCMWL5.SYS in \WINDOWS\system32/DRIVERS, but I find bcmwl5.inf (note lower case name; not found as upper case) in quite a few directories in the directory trees under \DELL\drivers\R63259\TMSetup and \DELL\drivers\R81836. Which, if any, of these is the correct file to use in creating an NDIS driver for FreeBSD? Have you tried comparing the files (with diff or similar) to see if they are simply copies of each other? In the cases I've seen, the driver installer at least keeps copies of the .sys and the .inf file in a directory together. After installation in a Microsoft file system that may of course no longer be the case. -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http://www.datadok.no/ http://www.nuug.no/ First, we kill all the spammers The Usenet Bard, Twice-forwarded tales ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
NDIS and Dell (Broadcom) WLAN 1450 Dual Band card
I got no responses to my question about existence of a driver for the wireless networking card mentioned in the Subject: line, so I guess I'll try the NDIS route. In section 25.3.3.6.* of the _FreeBSD_Handbook_, the instructions for using NDIS say that I will need the Windows XP driver binary (BCMWL5.SYS) and the Windows XP driver configuration file (allegedly BCMWL5.INF). In the Windows XP file system, I find BCMWL5.SYS in \WINDOWS\system32/DRIVERS, but I find bcmwl5.inf (note lower case name; not found as upper case) in quite a few directories in the directory trees under \DELL\drivers\R63259\TMSetup and \DELL\drivers\R81836. Which, if any, of these is the correct file to use in creating an NDIS driver for FreeBSD? Any useful information to make this FreeBSD system networkable soon will be greatly appreciated! Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ** * Internet: bennett at cs.niu.edu * ** * A well regulated and disciplined militia, is at all times a good * * objection to the introduction of that bane of all free governments * * -- a standing army. * *-- Gov. John Hancock, New York Journal, 28 January 1790 * ** ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
