On Sun, 12 Apr 2009 10:00:58 -0700 Steve Franks bahamasfra...@gmail.com
wrote:
I get this behavior on 2 completely different laptops, one on
7.0-release, and the other on 7-stable. ndio0 [broadcom :( ] comes
right up in dmesg, and ifconfig(), but it won't find any AP's - is
this known? - because I can google people with lots of different ndis0
problems (mostly on 5.x and 6.x), but not this particular one...I seem
some warning about not supporting AP's in the handbook for ndis, but
it seems to be under the 'build your own AP from freebsd and a nic
section', so I'm hoping it doesn't apply, cause my shiny new lenovo
s10e has a really ugly looking broadcom slot, not minipci. Must be
something new like micro pci, but at any rate, I would prefer not to
have to hack my bios to get it to boot with a non-broadcom nic in it
anyways. ndisgen has always been an acceptable, if distasteful,
solution in past days.
I use ndis on an Inspiron XPS with a Dell 1450 wireless card, which
uses a Broadcom chipset. I'm still running 6.3, but 7.x probably acts
the same way. It takes *two* ifconfig commands to get the interface
up and working. The up has to appear by itself on the first ifconfig.
Once that completes okay, I then run a second ifconfig with the rest of
the options. In other words, if I do
# ifconfig ndis0 up [rest of options]
all that happens is the interface comes up, and the rest of the options
are ignored. If I do
# ifconfig ndis0 up
# ifconfig ndis0 [rest of options]
all is well. That means, of course, that I end up having to do it manually
because the stuff in /etc/rc.d doesn't handle more than one ifconfig per
interface on system startup. :-(
Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG
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