On Tuesday 16 May 2006 00:33, Lorin Lund wrote: > I have a Compac Presario V2607CL notebook with a Turion chip. I have > 6.1-RELEASE for amd64 loaded. > It is running fine. But I'm trying toget the built in Broadcom wireless > working. > > I downloaded the driver from hp.com. The .INF file was over 600K but > most of that was multiple language > support. (The INF file was in UNICODE). I hacked out all the strings > for languages I wasn't interested in and > the whole thing shrunk down to around 47K after I stored it as text > rather than as UNICODE. > > After thus fixing up the INF file ndiscvt had no complaint and created a > header file. The make on the > kernel module proceeded without error messages. There is now an > "ndis.ko" file in /boot/kernel.
Since you're using FreeBSD 6.x, make sure you use ndisgen instead of running ndiscvt manually. That said, I haven't ever played with amd64 and don't know if ndis is supported / functional on that platform. Let us know what you find out! JN _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
