ndis (broadcom) quit working after a cvsup

[Mark A-J. Raught (from the laptop)]

Fabian Keil wrote:
> "Mark A-J. Raught (from the laptop)" <mraught at acm.org> wrote:
> 
> 
>>So after giving someone advice on how to get ndis working yesterday (it
>>didn't help, but I was confident enough to share my experience), I cvsup
>>and now I think I'm going nuts...
>>
>>first,
>>
>>uname -a:
>>
>>FreeBSD lore 5.4-STABLE FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #16: Sat Jul  2 01:52:13 EDT
>>2005     flash at lore:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/LORE  i386
>>
>>on a Gateway 7325GZ with a Broadcom BCM43XX (from the NDIS inf file that 
>>has been working)
>>
>>I ran cvsup last night from 5.4."probably a month or two ago" to
>>5.4."Jul2" as shown above.
>>
>>My sound and my ndis quit working as usual (everytime I recompile the
>>kernel I lose ndis and everytime I cvsup I lose the sound)
>>the sound shouldn't be a problem, just diff ac97.c and ac97.h (I'll look
>>at it later)
>>
>>the ndis should also be no problem...
>>
>>So I:
>>  go into /sys/modules/ndis and make clean; make; make install; make load
>>  go into /sys/modules/if_ndis and make clean; make; make install; make load
>>
>>both with no errors. Everything looks good. I hit fn-<F2> which usually
>>enables my wireless at this point and ndis0 appears in ifconfig -a, just
>>a quick "ifconfig ndis0 up" and it'll all be good.
>>
>>Wait a minute! No ndis0 shows up! Am I missing a step? I'm pretty sure
>>this is all I had to do the last couple times, but now that the laptop
>>is a couple months old I haven't been changing things as much and may
>>have missed a step. ok...
>>
>>I did notice that now kldload ndis or kldload if_ndis both will load the
>>other one. So where I used to kldload ndis then kldload if_ndis, now I
>>kldload ndis without an error, then kldload if_ndis gives: "kldload:
>>can't load if_ndis: File exists" and vice versa... After either is 
>>kldloaded, we get
>>
>>[lore] ~# kldstat
>>Id Refs Address    Size     Name
>>  1   16 0xc0400000 34ec10   kernel
>>  3    1 0xc0753000 587c     vesa.ko
>>  4    1 0xc0759000 1b34c    linux.ko
>>  7   14 0xc0797000 56270    acpi.ko
>>  8    1 0xc18a7000 2000     blank_saver.ko
>>12    1 0xc1bbf000 9000     if_ndis.ko
>>13    1 0xc1bc8000 12000    ndis.ko
>>[lore] ~#
>>
>>so they are loading...
>>
>>I haven't changed my kernel or any other files (except throug
>>mergemaster after the installworld) and I didn't see anything relevant
>>in /usr/src/UPDATING
>>
>>After plenty of playing and googling until 4AM and 4 more hours this 
>>morning, I'm stumped.
>>
>>any ideas???
> 
> 
> Try /usr/sbin/ndisgen. This is the new way to generate ndis.
> The old way seems to have stopped working a few weeks ago.
> I don't know if this was intentional, I hope it wasn't.
> 
> Fabian

That fixed it! Thank you so much! This should maybe be added to 
/usr/src/UPDATING or atleast a man page for it. I prefer the old way, 
but as long as it works I'll suffer through the wizard feel.

thanks,
-mark