Thanks for your detailed wrapping instructions, Michal. Michal Pryc wrote: > Michael, > Great thanks! > > I am currently writing this from the wireless net. > > Here are all the steps which I had to perform to get it working. If > you don't mind I will blog about this. If you don't mind, I want to link it into ndis project page to help much more community users when it is available. > > Download driver from: > http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodTypeId=321957&prodSeriesId=3442832&prodNameId=3442833&swEnvOID=1093&swLang=5&taskId=135&swItem=ob-60549-1&mode=3 > > > > Download ndis from: > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/laptop/downloads/ndis-1.2.4.tar.gz > > > Unpack exe: > find . -name "*.exe" -type f| xargs -I {} 7z x {} > > cp bcmwl5.sys ./ndis-1.2.4/i386/ndis.sys > iconv -f utf-16 -t ASCII//IGNORE bcmwl5.inf > ./ndis-1.2.4/i386/ndis.inf > > cd ndis-1.2.4/i386 > export PATH=/usr/ccs/bin:$PATH > make ndiscvt > ./ndiscvt -i ndis.inf -s ndis.sys -o ndis.h > make ndis > pfexec cp bcmndis /kernel/drv/bcmndis > make ndisapi > pfexec cp ndisapi /kernel/misc > pfexec add_drv -i '"pci14e4,432b"' bcmndis > > Also I think it's pretty hard to get to the page where all the > instructions are and the first page: > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/laptop/wireless/ndis/ > > Miss some information how to build ndis: > 1. Required packages (SUNWgcc SUNWhea SUNWflexlex SUNWgm4). as a dependency package, SUNWgm4 and SUNWhea should be installed along with SUNWgcc. > I think it would be great to create p5i file for this: > http://blogs.sun.com/jmr/entry/packagemanager_for_2009_06 .p5i file is not permitted to be attached to any OpenSolaris project page, and, I am not sure whether or not Opensolaris 0805,0811 users can benefit from .p5i file. > 2. Step to ocpy bcmwl5.sys to ndis.sys bcmwl5.sys may not be the actual Windows driver name, although most of broadcom bcm43xx drivers use this name. > 3. Iconv step already been highlighted in original "What is needed" section. > 4. export PATH step I've made some minor changes in ndis project page, if you have more comments, don't hesitate to let me know.
Thanks, Michael > > all the best > Michal Pryc
