ipw2100 vs ndis(4) -- does it work for anybody?

Sean Bryant bryants at gmail.com
Tue May 2 21:13:39 UTC 2006


ndisgen is broken on 6.1 RC1 if I remember correctly.
On 5/2/06, Scot Hetzel <swhetzel at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/2/06, Ulrich Spoerlein <uspoerlein at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Good day,
> >
> > since the ipw(4) driver can't do WPA, I wanted to give ndis(4) a try.
> > This *used* to work back on 5.3 (memory is a bit vague) but it ain't
> > happening on 6.1-RC.
> >
> > I'm using the same driver as last time, which is the version 1.2.2.8
> > from Intel. I also downloaded the newest one, version 1.2.4.35, but none
> > of them attach, when loading the if_ndis module.
> >
> > /sys/modules/if_ndis# make clean
> > /sys/modules/if_ndis# ndiscvt -i /compat/ndis/w70n51.inf -s /compat/ndis/w70n51.sys -o ndis_driver_data.h
>
> You need to use the ndisgen script to create the NDIS kernel module
> for your card.
>
> ndisgen /compat/ndis/w70n51.inf /compat/ndis/w70n51.sys
>
> then you use kldload to load the module:
>
> kldload w70n51_sys.ko
>
> Scot
>
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