TrueMobile 1300

[James Earl]

----- Original Message -----
From: Matthew Bettinger <mbettinger at championelevators.com>
Date: Thursday, March 11, 2004 1:36 pm
Subject: TrueMobile 1300

> Hello,
> 
> 
> Running into some problems trying to get this ndis  module working.
> 
> I loaded  5.2.1 ...
> 
> D600# uname -a 
> FreeBSD D600.champion.marmac.net 5.2.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE
> #0: Mon Feb 23 20:45:55 GMT 2004    
> root at wv1u.btc.adaptec.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
> 
> Grabbed the windows XP drivers from the dell cdrom  and performed
> the steps below (which I found on google..)
> 
> #cp dell1300.sys dell1300.inf /sys/modules/if_ndis
> # cd /sys/modules/ndis
> # make; make load 
> 
> The make process works but then it errors out when trying to load
> the module.
> 
> # cd /sys/modules/if_ndis
> # ndiscvt -i foo.inf -s foo.sys -o ndis_driver_data.h
> # make; make load
> 
> objcopy --strip-debug ndis.ko
> /sbin/kldload -v /usr/src/sys/modules/ndis/ndis.ko
> kldload: can't load /usr/src/sys/modules/ndis/ndis.ko: No such file
> or directory*** Error code 1
> 
> Stop in /usr/src/sys/modules/ndis.
> D600# 
> 
> It says ndis.ko doesn't exist but i can see the object right there
> in the directory
> 
> Please see:
> 
> D600# ls -la /usr/src/sys/modules/ndis/ndis.ko                 
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  75053 Mar 11 14:27
> /usr/src/sys/modules/ndis/ndis.ko
> 
> Any ideas? Before I place an order for some cisco aironet cards.
> 
> Thanks.

make ; make install worked for me, then kldload if_ndis after you have ndis compiled and installed.  Let me know if you need more detail.  :)

James