64-bit Windows XP NDIS drivers giving missing symbols

[doug]

On Sun, 25 Jul 2010, Gautham Ganapathy wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 1:16 AM, Jerry <freebsd.user at seibercom.net> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 18:45:24 +0000
>> Paul B Mahol <onemda at gmail.com> articulated:
>>
>>
>>> On 7/24/10, Jerry <freebsd.user at seibercom.net> wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 12:01:24 +0000
>>>> Paul B Mahol <onemda at gmail.com> articulated:
>>>>
>>>>> Such symbols are completly irrelevant for normal operation, because
>>>>> NDISulator crash on amd64 during driver initialization.
>>>>> I fixed this in my own git repo, but "fpudna in kernel mode" (my
>>>>> understanding is that it is source of panic when trying to use ndis0
>>>>> device on amd64), present only on amd64 is still not yet fixed - this
>>>>> should be addressed with fpu_kern KPI available on CURRENT - not done
>>>>> yet...
>>>>> Feel free to send patches.
>>>>
>>>> I feel his pain. I need 64 bit drivers for cards that FBSD does not
>>>> support, mostly 'N' protocol wireless cards. The inability to secure
>>>> and use perfectly good drivers that are available for Windows users in
>>>> FreeBSD is a real PIA. Of course, it does give my Window user friends
>>>> something to laugh about.
>>>
>>> And bwn(4) doesn't work at all?
>>
>> <quote>
>> bwn -- Broadcom BCM43xx IEEE 802.11b/g wireless network driver
>> </quote>
>>
>> You will notice that there is no 'n' in the description. In any case,
>> it is limited to 'broadcom' chips.
>>
>> --
>> Jerry ?
>> FreeBSD.user at seibercom.net
>>
>
> Nope, bwn did not work. The man page mentioned a port that also had to be
> installed. It had two modules, which I put in loader.conf one at a time
> along with if_bwn.ko, but still no luck.
>
> The card I have has a Broadcom 4353 chipset.  I think it is b/g/n.
>
I have a laptop with the same card. In a December 23, 2009 (in current I think) 
the driver maintainer said:

     I see that your device has LP-PHY instead of A/B/G/N PHYs so currently
     it's not supported by bwn(4).

     AFAIK linux has a weak but working implementation so we could refer to
     other Open Sources.

At least on 8.1 bwn does not recognize the device. I can not find XP drivers. 
Broadcom's site does not (as far as I could find) mention the card. It does not 
sound like the XP driver work much better. Using the win7 drivers produces a 
hard loop upon doing an ifconfig. There are no PRs on either ndis or bwn so I 
assume this will be the state of things for a while at least.

If anyone got the XP drivers to work with this card, please share the solution 
and how to get the drivers.