[nycbug-talk] Wireless internet card on FreeBSD laptop

[Fabian Keil]

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

> On 5/24/06, Gordon Smith <g at bin-arts.com> wrote:
> > Rambius,
> >
> > Last summer I was able to get my cruddy Jetbook laptop working just
> > fine with FreeBSD 5.4 and a Linksys 802.11G card using "The
> > NDISulator" (a.k.a. "Project Evil") which creates a clever FreeBSD
> > kernel-compatible wrapper around an NDIS NIC driver (intended to be
> > installed under Windows).
> >
> > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-wireless.h
> > tml
> > "27.3.3.6.3 802.11a & 802.11g Clients"
> I read this section and I tried the follow the steps in it. However,
> when I had to provide the Windows drivers *.INF and *.SYS files I
> found out that they were not supplied on the CDs from Verizon. I then
> looked for them on the Windows laptop and I found the following *.SYS
> and *.INF files in C:\Program Files\Verizon Wireless\PC5740:
> 
> pwi_bus.cat
> pwi_bus.inf
> pwi_bus.sys
> pwi_cmnt.sys
> pwi_ir16.dll
> pwi_ir32.dll
> pwi_mdfl.sys
> pwi_mdm.cat
> pwi_mdm.sys
> pwi_mdm2.inf
> pwi_oflt.sys
> pwi_sdm2.inf
> pwi_serd.cat
> pwi_serd.sys
> PWI_Uninstall.exe
> pwi_whnt.sys
> pwi_wmcp.dll
> 
> I tried to build a ndis driver using pwi_bus.inf and pwi_bus.sys, but
> I had no luck - when I loaded them, dmesg showed nothing.

The section you read is outdated. 
Use ndisgen(8).

Fabian
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