ndis problem with stable kernel source

[Nicholas Basila]

Daniel O'Connor wrote:

>On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 16:50, Nicholas Basila wrote:
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>>Well, I've been using the official HP driver. I ran the utility like so:
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>I don't know where the official HP driver is (hint: a URL would be handy)
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>>ndiscvt -i name_of_nt_driver.inf -s name_of_nt_driver.sys -o
>>/tmp/ndis_driver_data.h
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>>I then copied it to the compile directory of my kernel. Make depend runs
>>correctly, but it crashes out during the linking phase of make. I have
>>these options at the bottom of my kernel config:
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>>options NDISAPI
>>device ndis
>>device wlan
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>I would suggest building it as a module as it's much simpler (unless you're 
>booting over this interface - which is doubtful)
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>eg..
>cd /usr/src/sys/modules/if_ndis
>cp /tmp/foo.inf /tmp/foo.sys .
>ndiscvt -i foo.inf -s foo.sys -o ndis_driver_data.h
>make
>make install
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>>As I said, this worked perfectly with 5.3 and even 5-current before the
>>5.3 release. I tried building the stable version of ndiscvt, and that
>>didn't produce a different header file. I did a cvsup two days ago, got
>>the error, and did a new cvsup tonight.
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>Make sure your userland and kernel are in sync - ie install world to match 
>your new kernel. You may be building against stale headers.
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Er, I thought I had done a makeworld, but I guess I hadn't. You were 
right: the header files were old. That fixed the problem. I just got 
worried as I ran into a similar problem just before 5.3 release that 
caused me to lose the wireless. I ended up fixing that with a light edit 
to a couple of files.

Thanks to both of you!

Nicholas