Re: another step toward a working driver for Dell 1450 wireless card
Hrant Dadivanyan <[email protected]>
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> SUCCESS AT LAST!!! Read on... > Glad to hear, congratulations ! [deleted] > >Please note, you need to feed bcm43xx.cat to ndisgen as well. > This is wrong, because driver works without. That was my mistake, ndis wasn't load by some other cause. > I hadn't been aware of the bcm43xx.cat firmware file, so I checked the > modern driver files for it, found it, and tried again. It still caused the > same error messages and kernel panic. > So then I tried the "old" driver you directed me toward. When I then > did a kldload bcmwl5_sys.ko , lo and behold, no errors, the card was correctly > identified as a Dell 1450, and the kernel kept running as though nothing > important had happened. > As I write this update, I am logged in remotely to the system I handle > email on from a Starbuck's via a free-access wireless router at a Panera > restaurant across the highway. I've done a fresh cvsup on everything except > the ports tree and have run a "portsnap fetch update" as well. The connection > seems to work just great! > > > >Yesterday I found the following - > >http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=106131 > >with patch to ndis. It may work for you, sorry I don't have time now to > >try it for myself, on holidays maybe. > > I'll check that out when I find a bit more spare time. I confirm that patch works. Apply it and you can load "fresh" drivers from Dell. Thanks to Scot W. Hetzel for excellent work ! > Thank you ever so wonderfully much for your help! This is great! Now > I won't have to go bother my friends to let me hang out for hours at a time > in their basement with my computer hooked to their router by wire. :-) :-) > ;-) hrant > > Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG > ********************************************************************** > * Internet: bennett at cs.niu.edu * > *--------------------------------------------------------------------* > * "A well regulated and disciplined militia, is at all times a good * > * objection to the introduction of that bane of all free governments * > * -- a standing army." * > * -- Gov. John Hancock, New York Journal, 28 January 1790 * > ********************************************************************** > -- Hrant Dadivanyan (aka Ran d'Adi) ran(at)psg.com /* "Feci quod potui, faciant meliora potentes." */ ran(at)styx.aic.net _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"