* on the Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 04:19:59PM -0500, chriscureau at bellsouth.net was tippering: > Hi, everyone. > > I am trying to convert NDIS drivers for my D-Link DWL-G630 wireless card > with ndis 0.1. I successfully compiled ndiscnv, but when I run the program, > this is returned: > > # ./ndiscvt -i net5211.inf -s ar5211.sys -o ndis.h > ndiscvt: line 459: "D:ARAI(A;;GA;;;BA)(A;;GA;;;SY)(A;CI;GA;;;IU)": syntax > error.
The ndiscvt works on ASCII files, but many a crafty driver has been distributing stuff in Unicode. If I look at bcmwl5.inf (a Broadcom alternative): # hd bcmwl5.inf | head -3 00000000 ff fe 3b 00 3b 00 0d 00 0a 00 3b 00 3b 00 20 00 |..;.;.....;.;. .| 00000010 62 00 63 00 6d 00 77 00 6c 00 35 00 2e 00 69 00 |b.c.m.w.l.5...i.| 00000020 6e 00 66 00 0d 00 0a 00 3b 00 3b 00 0d 00 0a 00 |n.f.....;.;....| For your edification, if a file looks like null-padded ASCII characters, then it is probably UTF-16. To fix your problem: # iconv -c -f utf-16 -t ascii bcmwl5.inf > bcmwl5.inf.ascii # head -3 bcmwl5.inf.ascii ;; ;; bcmwl5.inf Use this .ascii file to create the .h and it should work -- Bruno Delbono Open-Systems Group Inc. http://www.open-systems.org/users/bruno/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/laptop-discuss/attachments/20060318/9160380f/attachment.bin>
