Re: help!! trying to convert wireless card driver

Mel <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sunday 16 September 2007 19:56:07 Terrence Wilson wrote:
> I need whatever help I can get using ndis to converter a wireless nic
> so I can use it on my laptop. it seems that I don't have iconv working
> properly. I go into the ndisgen program by typing the command:
>
> # ndisgen
>
> The program opens and gives a list of options. I choose option 3:
> Convert driver. The program then asks me to type in the path to the
> .inf file. So I type:
>
> /cdrom/DRIVER/bcmwl5.inf
>
> The program then says "This .INF file appears to be in Unicode. The
> iconv(1) utility does not appear to be installed. Please install this
> utility or convert the .INF file to ASCII and run this utility."
>
> So, I downloaded the iconv-2.0_3.tbz package and run the command:
>
> # pkg_add iconv-2.0_3.tbz

That's the wrong package, you will need libiconv-1.9.2_2. I know, it's 
confusing, I have no idea why the iconv package is still in ports.

-- 
Mel
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