Re: NDIS (for Netgear WG311) How-To?

[Eric F Crist]

On Dec 29, 2004, at 10:10 PM, Eric F Crist wrote:

On Dec 29, 2004, at 9:52 PM, jason henson wrote:

On 12/29/04 21:55:17, Eric F Crist wrote:

Hello list,
I'm looking at trying to get a new WG311 Netgear wifi adapter working, and have discovered that the v2 cards use the Texas Instruments chipset. From what I understand, I need to get this working with the NDIS support in FreeBSD 5.3. Is there a good document out there on how to get this working? I've been farting around with the man pages and can't seem to get things right.
Thanks for the help.
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Eric F Crist "I am so smart, S.M.R.T!"
Secure Computing Networks -Homer J Simpson

What have you got it to do so far, what command did you use, what drivers did you use, any output you could post?

I used the man page and it was pretty easy, I just used the man page for the command syntax and what files I would need. Didn't have to read much beyond that, but I did anyway.

Well, here's what I've done so far:

1) Copied the netwg311.sys and wg311v2.inf files frome the Windows 2000 folder from the distribution CD-ROM.

2) Ran ndiscvt -i /home/ecrist/wg311v2.inf -s /home/ecrist/netwg311.sys -o ndis_driver_data.h as root

3) Copied ndis_driver_data.h to the /usr/src/sys directory.

4) Added the following lines to my custom kernel config (GROG)
                options NDISAPO
                device ndis

5) Ran (from /usr/src) make buildkernel KERNCONF=GROG

6) Ran (from /usr/src) make installkernel KERNCONF=GROG

7) Rebooted (no ndis0 listing in ifconfig output)

Any idea what I did wrong?

Thanks.

WAIT!  I've found something.  Here's a snippet from dmesg:

ndis0: <NETGEAR WG311v2 802.11g Wireless PCI Adapter> mem 0xec800000-0xec81ffff,0xed000000-0xed001fff irq 17 at device 14.0 on pci0
ndis0: NDIS API version: 5.0
NDIS: could not find file FwRad16.bin in linker list
NDIS: and no filesystems mounted yet, aborting NdisOpenFile()
ndis0: init handler failed

Any ideas about that?

Thanks.
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Eric F Crist                  "I am so smart, S.M.R.T!"
Secure Computing Networks              -Homer J Simpson

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