USB Wifi adapter (Atheros)

[Paul B Mahol]

On 10/25/10, Matthias Apitz <guru at unixarea.de> wrote:
> El dia Monday, October 25, 2010 a las 08:28:34AM +0000, Paul B Mahol
> escribio:
>
>> >> > I've tried as well the ndisgen(8) way based on the XP driver with no
>> >> > luck.
>> >>
>> >> And you reported bug?
>> >
>> > No. I have no problem with filing a bug report, but I was unsure if this
>> > makes sense because we are talking (at least in parts) about Windows
>> > software. Should I?
>>
>> If you tell me what you did and what did not work I could help you.
>
> Thanks for your kind offer.
>
> The laptop comes with Windows7 pre-installed and I've pulled out the
> files:
>
> BCMWL6.SYS
> netbc6.inf
>
> I run
>
> $ ndisgen netbc6.inf BCMWL6.SYS
>
> and it created the module BCMWL6_SYS.ko; and in addition I created
> bwi_v3_ucode.ko from the ports (don't know if this is also required for
> the ndis based driver).
It is not required for ndis miniport driver.
>
> Both get loaded on boot but the interface ndis0 does not show up and
> pciconf(8) shows the device without attached driver.
>
> The same is true when I use an older (2006) bcmwl5.* from XP. I don't
> have netbc6.inf BCMWL6.SYS for XP. Maybe this is the main fault...

As name suggest "6" means it use NDIS 6 API, NDISulator supports 5.1
and not 6 or higher.

Adding support for 6 API is in very early (planning) stage.

When you load bcwml5 driver what is displayed on console?
>
> I'm missing something?
>
> Thanks again
>
> 	matthias
>
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