Hi, I am newbie as far as freebsd is concerned. I installed the latest version of freebsd 5.2.1 last week and to make my wireless card to work i need ndis wrapper. I searched for it on the web and found the necessary drivers. I searched for ndis on my system but it seems like its not there. Do i have rebuild the kernel with some flags to install ndis or can i just get source for ndis and install it? Any help is highly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Hi,
"Project Evil" aka NDISulator does not come with 5.2.1-Release. However, you can install it on 5.2.1-Release by following these instructions.
You need to have the system's sources installed locally. In addition, you will have to download the NDISulator sources. You can either download them from CVSweb, by using CVSup or by using AnonCVS. I chose to use AnonCVS.
Pick an AnonCVS mirror close to you from the list at [1]. I live in Germany, but since none of the two German mirrors work for me atm, I chose anoncvs.at.FreeBSD.org which is located in Austria. Set your CVSROOT environment variable so it fits the server you chose. I issued the following commands:
$ su Password: # setenv CVSROOT :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/ncvs
I used 'su' b/c you need write permissions on the source tree to check out the NDISulator sources.
Now you will need to login to the CVS server.
# cvs login Logging in to :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:2401/home/ncvs CVS password:
You can find the password listed at [1]. Now you need to check out the sources for NDISulator. The directories you need to check out are
sys/compat/ndis sys/dev/if_ndis usr.sbin/ndiscvt sys/modules/if_ndis sys/modules/ndis
Use the following command to do so (and make sure you're in /usr/src):
# pwd /usr/src mars# cvs checkout sys/compat/ndis sys/dev/if_ndis usr.sbin/ndiscvt \ sys/modules/if_ndis sys/modules/ndis [CVS output snipped]
First you should build ndiscvt(8) by doing
# cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/ndiscvt # make [compile output snipped] # make install install -s -o root -g wheel -m 555 ndiscvt /usr/sbin install -o root -g wheel -m 444 ndiscvt.8.gz /usr/share/man/man8 # rehash
Now you can build the first module by doing:
# cd /sys/modules/ndis/ # make # make load /sbin/kldload -v /usr/src/sys/modules/ndis/ndis.ko Loaded /usr/src/sys/modules/ndis/ndis.ko, id=4
Finally you need to build the if_ndis module. This requires that you have got the drivers for your NIC availeable.
# cd /sys/modules/if_ndis # ndiscvt -i /path/to/driver.inf -s /path/to/driver.sys \ -o ndis_driver_data.h [long output snipped] # make Warning: Object directory not changed from original \ /usr/src/sys/modules/if_ndis @ -> /usr/src/sys machine -> /usr/src/sys/i386/include touch opt_bdg.h awk -f @/tools/makeobjops.awk @/kern/device_if.m -h awk -f @/tools/makeobjops.awk @/kern/bus_if.m -h awk -f @/tools/makeobjops.awk @/dev/pci/pci_if.m -h awk -f @/tools/makeobjops.awk @/dev/pccard/card_if.m -h make: don't know how to make pccarddevs.h. Stop
Now, I don't know what this error means or why it appears, but if you apply this patch to Makefile, it works for me.
--- Makefile.old Sun Aug 15 14:27:08 2004 +++ Makefile Sun Aug 29 13:27:25 2004 @@ -4,6 +4,6 @@
KMOD= if_ndis SRCS= if_ndis.c if_ndis_pci.c if_ndis_pccard.c -SRCS+= opt_bdg.h device_if.h bus_if.h pci_if.h card_if.h pccarddevs.h +SRCS+= opt_bdg.h device_if.h bus_if.h pci_if.h card_if.h
.include <bsd.kmod.mk>
Now re-run make:
# make [output snipped, no errors]
Now you can load the module. I recommend you do this on the console and not from X so you see what's going on...
# make load
/sbin/kldload -v /usr/src/sys/modules/if_ndis/if_ndis.ko
> Aug 29 13:30:38 mars kernel: ndis0: <Intel(R) PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini PCI Adapter> mem 0xe0203000-0xe0203fff irq 10 at device 6.0 on pci2
> Aug 29 13:30:38 mars kernel: ndis0: NDIS API version: 5.1
> Aug 29 13:30:38 mars kernel: ndis0: 11b rates: 11Mbps 2Mbps 1Mbps 5.5Mbps
Loaded /usr/src/sys/modules/if_ndis/if_ndis.ko, id=5
Please note that the ">"s are just there so my mailer doesn't wrap the lines :-/. Now, if all went well you can see a network interface called ndis0 if you issue
mars# ifconfig ndis0
ndis0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
ether 00:0c:f1:2d:0e:4b
media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect
status: no carrier
ssid ""
channel -1 authmode OPEN powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100
wepmode OFF weptxkey 1Depending on your interface the output might look differently, but if ndis0 is there, you know that compiling and loading "Project Evil" worked.
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Phil.
[1]http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/anoncvs.html
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