NDIS: intel 4965 panic

[Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri]

On 10/15/07, Marcin Simonides <marcin at studio4plus.com> wrote:
> I've tried using an XP ndis wrapper for my intel 4965 wifi adapter.
> After loading the driver the device is recognized and then kernel panics
> during driver attachement.
>
> I'm using RELENG6 that has been updated a couple of months ago. I'll
> probably update it soon and then try again.
>
> This is the most important (AFAIK) information (I had to put this
> information down on a piece of paper, so it's not complete, I'll try to
> figure out a way to dump ddb output to a file):
>
> First an error from NDIS is printed:
> NDIS API version: 5.1
> NDIS ERROR: 4000167c (internal error)
>
> then the kernel paniced:
>
> Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
> fault code =  supervisor read, page not present
>
> stopped at device_get_softc+0x6 movl 0x48(%eax),%eax
>
> the backtrace shows:
> device_get_softc
> NdisMAllocateSharedMemory
> _end
> [...]
> NETw4x32_sys_drv_data_start
>
> NETw4x32_sys is the module name.
>
>
> I've seen in the pr database that there are many similar problems (i.e.
> ndis wrapper not working with certain drivers). Should I send a PR
> related to this particular wifi card I have?
>
> Is there any more information that I could provide to help the
> developers with enabling support for more wifi cards?
> (I'll try to take a peek into the driver code but as I've never done any
> kernel programming this may yield no useful results).
>
> Thanks for your time :)
> --
> Marcin Simonides

Having it to work would be interesting ;)


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-Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri
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