Does NDISulator work on amd64? Has anyone made this work?

Norberto Meijome freebsd at meijome.net
Mon May 15 23:11:51 PDT 2006


On Mon, 15 May 2006 22:33:55 -0600
Lorin Lund <wbs at infowest.com> wrote:

> I have a Compac Presario V2607CL notebook with a Turion chip.  I have 
> 6.1-RELEASE for amd64 loaded.
> It is running fine.  But I'm trying toget the built in Broadcom wireless 
> working.

[....]

> After thus fixing up the INF file ndiscvt had no complaint and created a 
> header file.  The make on the
> kernel module proceeded without error messages.  There is now an 
> "ndis.ko" file in /boot/kernel.

 
> But when I do
>   ifconfig ndis0
> I get an error message saying that there is no ndis0 interface.  I don't 
> know what my next step should be.

(never used NDIS, but it seems a module issue...not being loaded)

have you loaded the module?  (does it show in kldstat?)
if not, do 
kldload ndis

and try ifconfig again.

then you can add 
ndis_load="YES" 
to /boot/loader.conf.local

Beto


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