NDIS (for Netgear WG311) How-To?

Eric F Crist ecrist at secure-computing.net
Wed Dec 29 20:10:55 PST 2004


On Dec 29, 2004, at 9:52 PM, jason henson wrote:

> On 12/29/04 21:55:17, Eric F Crist wrote:
>> Hello list,
>> I'm looking at trying to get a new WG311 Netgear wifi adapter 
>> working, and have discovered that the v2 cards use the Texas 
>> Instruments chipset.  From what I understand, I need to get this 
>> working with the NDIS support in FreeBSD 5.3.  Is there a good 
>> document out there on how to get this working?  I've been farting 
>> around with the man pages and can't seem to get things right.
>> Thanks for the help.
>> _______________________________________________________
>> Eric F Crist                  "I am so smart, S.M.R.T!"
>> Secure Computing Networks              -Homer J Simpson
> What have you got it to do so far, what command did you use, what 
> drivers did you use, any output you could post?
>
> I used the man page and it was pretty easy, I just used the man page 
> for the command syntax and what files I would need.  Didn't have to 
> read much beyond that, but I did anyway.

Well, here's what I've done so far:

1) Copied the netwg311.sys and wg311v2.inf files frome the Windows 2000 
folder from the distribution CD-ROM.

2) Ran ndiscvt -i /home/ecrist/wg311v2.inf -s /home/ecrist/netwg311.sys 
-o ndis_driver_data.h as root

3) Copied ndis_driver_data.h to the /usr/src/sys directory.

4) Added the following lines to my custom kernel config (GROG)
		options NDISAPO
		device ndis

5) Ran (from /usr/src) make buildkernel KERNCONF=GROG

6) Ran (from /usr/src) make installkernel KERNCONF=GROG

7) Rebooted (no ndis0 listing in ifconfig output)

Any idea what I did wrong?

Thanks.
_______________________________________________________
Eric F Crist                  "I am so smart, S.M.R.T!"
Secure Computing Networks              -Homer J Simpson
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