Sanjay Makadia wrote:
Hi,
I am newbie as far as freebsd is concerned. I installed the latest
version of freebsd 5.2.1 last week and to make my wireless card to
work i need ndis wrapper. I searched for it on the web and found the
necessary drivers. I searched for ndis on my system but it seems like
its not there. Do i have rebuild the kernel with some flags to
install ndis or can i just get source for ndis and install it? Any
help is highly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Hi,
Project Evil aka NDISulator does not come with 5.2.1-Release.
However, you can install it on 5.2.1-Release by following these
instructions.
You need to have the system's sources installed locally. In addition,
you will have to download the NDISulator sources. You can either
download them from CVSweb, by using CVSup or by using AnonCVS. I chose
to use AnonCVS.
Pick an AnonCVS mirror close to you from the list at [1]. I live in
Germany, but since none of the two German mirrors work for me atm, I
chose anoncvs.at.FreeBSD.org which is located in Austria. Set your
CVSROOT environment variable so it fits the server you chose. I issued
the following commands:
$ su
Password:
# setenv CVSROOT :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/ncvs
I used 'su' b/c you need write permissions on the source tree to check
out the NDISulator sources.
Now you will need to login to the CVS server.
# cvs login
Logging in to :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:2401/home/ncvs
CVS password:
You can find the password listed at [1]. Now you need to check out the
sources for NDISulator. The directories you need to check out are
sys/compat/ndis
sys/dev/if_ndis
usr.sbin/ndiscvt
sys/modules/if_ndis
sys/modules/ndis
Use the following command to do so (and make sure you're in /usr/src):
# pwd
/usr/src
mars# cvs checkout sys/compat/ndis sys/dev/if_ndis usr.sbin/ndiscvt \
sys/modules/if_ndis sys/modules/ndis
[CVS output snipped]
First you should build ndiscvt(8) by doing
# cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/ndiscvt
# make
[compile output snipped]
# make install
install -s -o root -g wheel -m 555 ndiscvt /usr/sbin
install -o root -g wheel -m 444 ndiscvt.8.gz /usr/share/man/man8
# rehash
Now you can build the first module by doing:
# cd /sys/modules/ndis/
# make
# make load
/sbin/kldload -v /usr/src/sys/modules/ndis/ndis.ko
Loaded /usr/src/sys/modules/ndis/ndis.ko, id=4
Finally you need to build the if_ndis module. This requires that you
have got the drivers for your NIC availeable.
# cd /sys/modules/if_ndis
# ndiscvt -i /path/to/driver.inf -s /path/to/driver.sys \
-o ndis_driver_data.h
[long output snipped]
# make
Warning: Object directory not changed from original \
/usr/src/sys/modules/if_ndis
@ - /usr/src/sys
machine - /usr/src/sys/i386/include
touch opt_bdg.h
awk -f @/tools/makeobjops.awk @/kern/device_if.m -h
awk -f @/tools/makeobjops.awk @/kern/bus_if.m -h
awk -f @/tools/makeobjops.awk @/dev/pci/pci_if.m -h
awk -f @/tools/makeobjops.awk @/dev/pccard/card_if.m -h
make: don't know how to make pccarddevs.h. Stop
Now, I don't know what this error means or why it appears, but if you
apply this patch to Makefile, it works for me.
--- Makefile.oldSun Aug 15 14:27:08 2004
+++ MakefileSun Aug 29 13:27:25 2004
@@ -4,6 +4,6 @@
KMOD= if_ndis
SRCS= if_ndis.c if_ndis_pci.c if_ndis_pccard.c
-SRCS+= opt_bdg.h device_if.h bus_if.h pci_if.h card_if.h pccarddevs.h
+SRCS+= opt_bdg.h device_if.h bus_if.h pci_if.h card_if.h
.include bsd.kmod.mk
Now re-run make:
# make
[output snipped, no errors]
Now you can load the module. I recommend you do this on the console and
not from X so you see what's going on...
# make load
/sbin/kldload -v /usr/src/sys/modules/if_ndis/if_ndis.ko
Aug 29 13:30:38 mars kernel: ndis0: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless LAN 2100
3B Mini PCI Adapter mem 0xe0203000-0xe0203fff irq 10 at device 6.0 on pci2
Aug 29 13:30:38 mars kernel: ndis0: NDIS API version: 5.1
Aug 29 13:30:38 mars kernel: ndis0: 11b rates: 11Mbps 2Mbps 1Mbps
5.5Mbps
Loaded /usr/src/sys/modules/if_ndis/if_ndis.ko, id=5
Please note that the s are just there so my mailer doesn't wrap the
lines :-/. Now, if all went well you can see a network interface called
ndis0 if you issue
mars# ifconfig ndis0
ndis0: flags=8802BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500
ether 00:0c:f1:2d:0e:4b
media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect
status: no carrier
ssid
channel -1 authmode OPEN powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100
wepmode OFF weptxkey 1
Depending on your interface the output might look differently, but if
ndis0 is there, you know that compiling and loading Project Evil worked.
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Phil.
[1]http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/anoncvs.html
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