ndis panic HP pavilion ze4400 won't boot

2009-01-08 Thread Neal Hogan
I'm father new to fBSD. I hope this is the appropriate list to send this question to. I just installed 7.1-RELEASE on my HP pavilion and attempted to configure my Broadcom wlan card (BCM94309 version 4.10.40.0) using ndisgen. I cp'd the bcmwl5_sys.ko to /boot/kernel and added *bcmwl5_sys_load="YES

Re: ndis panic HP pavilion ze4400 won't boot

2009-01-08 Thread Paul B. Mahol
On 1/8/09, Neal Hogan wrote: > I'm father new to fBSD. I hope this is the appropriate list to send this > question to. > > I just installed 7.1-RELEASE on my HP pavilion and attempted to configure my > Broadcom wlan card (BCM94309 version 4.10.40.0) using ndisgen. I cp'd the > bcmwl5_sys.ko to /bo

Re: ndis panic HP pavilion ze4400 won't boot

2009-01-08 Thread Neal Hogan
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Paul B. Mahol wrote: > On 1/8/09, Neal Hogan wrote: > > I'm father new to fBSD. I hope this is the appropriate list to send this > > question to. > > > > I just installed 7.1-RELEASE on my HP pavilion and attempted to configure > my > > Broadcom wlan card (BCM9430

Re: ndis panic HP pavilion ze4400 won't boot

2009-01-08 Thread Glen Barber
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Neal Hogan wrote: > I'm father new to fBSD. I hope this is the appropriate list to send this > question to. > > I just installed 7.1-RELEASE on my HP pavilion and attempted to configure my > Broadcom wlan card (BCM94309 version 4.10.40.0) using ndisgen. I cp'd the

Re: ndis panic HP pavilion ze4400 won't boot

2009-01-08 Thread Paul B. Mahol
On 1/8/09, Neal Hogan wrote: > On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Paul B. Mahol wrote: > >> On 1/8/09, Neal Hogan wrote: >> > I'm father new to fBSD. I hope this is the appropriate list to send this >> > question to. >> > >> > I just installed 7.1-RELEASE on my HP pavilion and attempted to >> > con

Re: ndis panic HP pavilion ze4400 won't boot

2009-01-08 Thread Neal Hogan
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Glen Barber wrote: > On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Neal Hogan wrote: > > I'm father new to fBSD. I hope this is the appropriate list to send this > > question to. > > > > I just installed 7.1-RELEASE on my HP pavilion and attempted to configure > my > > Broadco

Re: ndis panic HP pavilion ze4400 won't boot

2009-01-08 Thread Glen Barber
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Neal Hogan wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Glen Barber wrote: >> >> On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Neal Hogan wrote: >> > I'm father new to fBSD. I hope this is the appropriate list to send this >> > question to. >> > >> > I just installed 7.1-RELEA

Re: ndis panic HP pavilion ze4400 won't boot

2009-01-08 Thread Glen Barber
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Glen Barber wrote: > On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Neal Hogan wrote: >> >> >> On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Glen Barber wrote: >>> >>> On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Neal Hogan wrote: >>> > I'm father new to fBSD. I hope this is the appropriate list to send

Re: ndis panic HP pavilion ze4400 won't boot

2009-01-09 Thread Neal Hogan
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Glen Barber wrote: > On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Neal Hogan wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Glen Barber > wrote: > >> > >> On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Neal Hogan > wrote: > >> > I'm father new to fBSD. I hope this is the appropriate l

Re: ndis panic HP pavilion ze4400 won't boot

2009-01-09 Thread Glen Barber
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Neal Hogan wrote: > Glen, > > Well, I never loaded into /boot/modules and at this point I've removed the > *bcmwl5-stuff* to begin again. Note that *kldload bcmwl5_sys.ko* output > that there was no such file. Below is some info as to what lead to the panic > (it's

Re: ndis panic HP pavilion ze4400 won't boot

2009-01-09 Thread Neal Hogan
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 8:24 AM, Glen Barber wrote: > On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Neal Hogan wrote: > > Glen, > > > > Well, I never loaded into /boot/modules and at this point I've removed > the > > *bcmwl5-stuff* to begin again. Note that *kldload bcmwl5_sys.ko* output > > that there was no

Re: ndis panic HP pavilion ze4400 won't boot

2009-01-09 Thread Glen Barber
> > I'm in the process of sync'ing up my system with source . . . but, in the > meantime I'm wondering about the choice of Broadcom driver. Is it really a > matter of trying different ones? It was for me. It took me 3 tries before I found one that 'worked'. > I updated the driver this morning to

Re: ndis panic HP pavilion ze4400 won't boot

2009-01-10 Thread Neal Hogan
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Glen Barber wrote: > > > > I'm in the process of sync'ing up my system with source . . . but, in the > > meantime I'm wondering about the choice of Broadcom driver. Is it really > a > > matter of trying different ones? > > It was for me. It took me 3 tries before

Re: ndis panic HP pavilion ze4400 won't boot

2009-01-10 Thread Glen Barber
Neal Hogan wrote: Well, it took me all day, but I did synch-up the source with the kernel. However, being new to the ways of fBSD I (accidentally) ended up building the -CURRENT source and kernel (8.0). I tried ndisgen on the latest driver and it didn't work . . . I'll tell you why in a secon