Francois,
Solaris Ndiswrapper can not be used to wrap usb driver.
- Michael
Francois ??:
> Hello.
> I'm trying to get my realtek chipset 8187b working with ndiswrapper.
> My laptop: TOSHIBA A210 1AT (amd64x2) with this integrated (on-boarded) wifi
> chipset.
> The particularity of this chipset is:
> - It's identified as 8197 but must work with a 8187b driver ("rtl8187b" is
> written on the "warning wireless device" label, under my laptop.
> - It's not seen as a PCI device but as an USB device
>
> output from dmesg:
> -----
> Feb 9 09:10:07 EOLE usba: [ID 912658 kern.info] USB 2.0 device (usbbda,8197)
> operating at hi speed (USB 2.x) on USB 2.0 root hub: device at 6, usb_mid0 at
> bus address 2
> Feb 9 09:10:07 EOLE usba: [ID 349649 kern.info] 00e04c000001
> Feb 9 09:10:07 EOLE genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] usb_mid0 is /pci at
> 0,0/pci1179,ff10 at 13,5/device at 6
> Feb 9 09:10:07 EOLE genunix: [ID 408114 kern.info] /pci at 0,0/pci1179,ff10
> at 13,5/device at 6 (usb_mid0) online
> -----
>
> I'm on SXDE 1/08 b79, with 32 bits forced-mode.
> I followed the installation instructions on the "Solaris NDIS Wrapper
> Toolkit" page:
> - I've downloaded the windows drivers
> (ftp://202.65.194.212/cn/wlan/RTL8187B_driver_only.zip) and chosen the winXP
> driver (net8187b.inf & rtl8187B.sys).
> - when i do...
> # cd ndis-1.1/i386
> (copy net8187b.inf and rtl8187B.sys here, then rename to ndis.inf and
> ndis.sys)
> # make ndiscvt
> # ./ndiscvt -i ndis.inf -s ndis.sys -o ndis.h
> # make ndis
> # cp bcmndis /kernel/drv/bcmndis
> # make ndisapi
> # cp ndisapi /kernel/misc
> ... it runs well (no errors).
> but, at the add_drv -i '"pci(vendor id),(device id)"' bcmndis, I suppose it
> was a good idea to take usbbda,8197, like the dmesg shows it above, because
> /usr/X11/bin/scanpci -v is for PCI and i haven't the same for USB.
> So i test add_drv -i '"usbbda,8197"' bcmndis and have the error:
> devfsadm: driver failed to attach: bcmndis
> Warning: Driver (bcmndis) successfully added to system but failed to attach
>
> I don't either know or how to know if usbbda,8197 is the good target and
> don't know how to solve the error.
> I've read in other tread that a script "pcitool" can solve the problem but
> it's for PCI...
> Perhaps USB-connected chipsets can't work with ndiswrapper?
> If anybody would have ideas about that... some help is welcome !
>
> regards,
>
>
> cl289 - localized in Reims, France
>
>
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