[nycbug-talk] Wireless internet card on FreeBSD laptop

[Fabian Keil]

"Ivan \"Rambius\" Ivanov" <rambiusparkisanius at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 5/25/06, Fabian Keil <freebsd-listen at fabiankeil.de> wrote:
> >
> > The section you read is outdated.
> > Use ndisgen(8).
> I tried ndisgen in the following way:
> 
> # ndisgen pwi_bus.inf pwi_bus.sys
> 
> bit it failed with with the error message "I don't recognize this file
> format. It may not be a valid .INF file".
> 
> It seems that the .inf and .sys files which I copied from the Windows
> laptop (which was given to me by my employer with the wireless card)
> to the FreeBSD are not the correct driver files...

Does the inf file look valid? It should begin similar to this one:

fk at TP51 ~ $head -n 20 /root/w22n51.inf 
;******************************************************************************
; w22n51.INF
;
; Intel PRO/Wireless 2200 LAN Adapters
; Installation Script for Windows XP
;
; Copyright (c) 2004 Intel, Inc. All Rights Reserved
;
;------------------------------------------------------------------------------

;******************************************************************************
; Version Section
;------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[version]
Signature   = "$Windows NT$"
Compatible  = 1
Class       = net
ClassGUID   = {4d36e972-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}
Provider    = %PROVIDER_NAME%
DriverVer   = 08/24/2004,8.1.0.28

Fabian
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