ndisgen and 5-STABLE

[sebastian ssmoller]

On Fri, 1 Jul 2005 15:07:24 -0600 (MDT)
Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:

> With ndiscvt, it was possible to build a working ndis module for my 
> Thinkpad T42 with Intel 2100 802.11b card.
> 
> Now, ndisgen has been merged into 5-STABLE, and ndisgen runs and
> reports  "conversion successful."  It builds W70N51_SYS.ko (and .o) in
> the  current directory.
> 
> Copying W70N51_SYS.ko to /boot/kernel and the kldloading that file 
> results in an almost-working setup.  kldload never exits, but ndis0
> does  show up in ifconfig.
> 
> It even works, until a program tries to down the interface.  Then it 
> never exits, either.
> 
> This is on 5-STABLE as of yesterday.  Any suggestions?

same situation here on recent -CURRENT (same card and driver) ....

regards,
seb

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