Problems building wireless ndis kernel module for D-Link DWL-650 V.P1 under FreeBSD v 5.4... for Intel...IBM ThinkPad 380z...help?...

Sun Jul 3 05:46:46 GMT 2005

SITUATION UPDATE:

Turns out that ndiscvt didn't like the fact that the last line in the
inf file didn't have
a newline; I added one and then ndiscvt was happy.  It created a HUGE header
file.

My problem now is "wi0: wi_cmd: busy bit won't clear.: init failed".

What follows is the full output when trying to use the NDISulator:

"kldload ndis" output:

Nothing so I assume the command was successful.

"kldload if_ndis" output:

wi0: <D-Link DWL-650 Wireless PC Card RevP> at port 0x280-0x2ff irq 11 function
0 config 1 on pccard0
wi0: wi_cmd: busy bit won't clear.: init failed
device_attach: wi0 attach returned 6

"ifconfig" output:

plip0: flags=108810<POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
lo0: 

flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
	inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
	inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
	inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2

The "ndis/wi0" interface is conspicuously missing as expected as
a result of the output from the "kldload if_ndis" command.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Dom

On 7/2/05, Dominic Caffey <domcaf at gmail.com> wrote:
> Mark,
>            Thanks for the suggestion.  I tried it but unfortunately it
> did NOT work. I did indeed find another pair of inf & sys files in the
> top level of the DLINK zip file and they had different contents then
> what was in the WinXP folder as verified by doing a diff on the inf
> file and chksum on the sys files. I also tried the inf & sys files
> from the working Win2K installation on the same hardware and also was
> unsuccessful.  In all cases, I still got the same error from ndiscvt.
> The directions in the FreeBSD online handbook state that one should
> use the Win-XP files, which I originally did, but does one absolutely
> have to use the Win-XP files or should the Win2k files work as well?
> Hopefully someone can provide some clarification on this.  I also
> examined my inf files and they didn't have any control-chars-crap in
> them; all inf versions appeared to be clean.  Hopefully someone else
> can shed some light on my problem.  Thanks again for your suggestion.
> 
> Dom
> 
> On 7/1/05, Mark A-J. Raught (from the laptop) <mraught at acm.org> wrote:
> > Dominic Caffey wrote:
> > > Dear FreeBSD-Mobile & Newbies & Bill Paul,
> > >
> > >       I'm having problems bulding a wireless ndis kernel module and
> > > was hoping I might get some help with where I'm going wrong. Please be
> > > aware that I did check the list archives at
> > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/mmsearch/freebsd-mobile before
> > > posting but got no hits. I also tried google'ing the error message as
> > > well with no hits so please no RTFM replies because I've already
> > > RTFM'd at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-wireless.html
> > > section 25.3.3.6.3 802.11a & 802.11g Clients.  Here's the pertinet
> > > information:
> > >
> > > uname -a output:
> > > FreeBSD 380Z.none2.org 5.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE #0: Sun May  8
> > > 10:21:06 UTC 2005
> > > root at harlow.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
> > >
> > > pwd output:
> > > /usr/src/sys/modules/if_ndis
> > >
> > > ls -l output:
> > > total 1342
> > > -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     280 Mar 30 23:27 Makefile
> > > -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   14391 Jun 29 17:35 NETPRISM.inf
> > > -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  652288 Jun 29 17:35 PRISMNDS.sys
> > > -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  644608 Jun 29 17:35 PRISMUSB.sys
> > > -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      72 Jun 29 17:54 ndis_driver_data.h
> > > -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    8276 Jun 29 17:35 prismnic.cat
> > >
> > > ndiscvt output:
> > > ndiscvt -i NETPRISM.inf -s PRISMNDS.sys -o ndis_driver_data.h
> > > ndiscvt: line 376: : syntax error.
> > >
> > > I obtained the Win-XP drivers for the wireless NIC, D-Link DWL-650
> > > V.P1, from http://support.dlink.com/products/view.asp?productid=DWL%2D650%5FrevP
> > >
> > > I'm trying to do this on an IBM ThinkPad 380z with 64Mb ram with a 8Gb
> > > hard drive.
> > >
> > > The wireless NIC works fine under MS-Win2k.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Dom
> > >
> >
> > Dom,
> > I had a similar error. I don't remember the exact error, but it was a
> > syntax error and was due to the fact that I was using the wrong inf
> > file. The correct one was pure ascii while the wrong one had
> > miscellaneous crap in it. This may not be your problem, but it took me a
> > while searching, until I gave up and went back to it and discovered that
> > there were 2 inf files. Tried it with the other inf and all went well. I
> > don't know if this is two different version of the same inf, or if it is
> > an inf for a different system... Either way, you may want to check it
> > out. I think my error was early in the file like line 6 or 8 though, so
> > this may not help at all.
> >
> >
> > -mark
> >
> 
> 
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> | Email: DomCaf at gmail.com
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