Hello Ken, it took me a while to get around to trying the other drivers. I compiled the HP pack with ndis-1.2.1 from opensolaris.cz archives, and had several problems:
1) A string comparison function is defined in ndis sources that seems identical to one in system headers, so I commented it out (maybe, my big mistake?) I refer to strcasestr() in inf.c needed to build ndiscvt. 2) For some reason, the iconv translation of the INF file choked on the file from HP archives, I inspected the file and found no errors on the line reported. "iconv -c" produced the output I ultimately used. Maybe it is a problem with an iconv provided by OI (still at oi_151a5 here). 3) In a not-very-unexpected twist, at least in a 64-bit boot the driver (made from bcmwl564.sys) panicked my system. I did not yet try 32-bit, because ultimately I do need 64-bit to work. Finally, while googling around I saw references to ndis-1.2.3 and 1.2.5 that might have been the last ones published on OpenSolaris laptop site. Do you know if those sources can still be found? I read that the NDIS wrapper fixes might help here, more than matching an okay version of binary drivers. Would it help if I tried to recover or retype the kernel stacktraces from the last failure? I remember the problem seemed to be in bcmndis initialization and a jet of exception handlers above that until die(). 2012-09-26 21:13, ken mays wrote:
Hi Jim, Are you using HP's Broadcom Wireless LAN Drivers sp48616.exe (v5.60.350.6) pack? DEVICES SUPPORTED: Broadcom 802.11g Broadcom 802.11a-g Broadcom 802.11a/g/pre-n Broadcom 802.11a/b/g/n Broadcom 43225 802.11b/g/n Broadcom 4313 802.11b/g/n ~ Ken Mays ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *From:* Jim Klimov <[email protected]> *To:* ken mays <[email protected]> *Sent:* Wednesday, September 26, 2012 8:00 AM *Subject:* bwn driver Hello, Ken, On http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/WiFi you mentioned that BCM4313 can work with a "bwn" river and needs NDIS. Can you please elaborate on where to find and how to configure it? "pkg install bwn" yields nothing on oi_151a5. I followed instructions from https://www.illumos.org/issues/2156 and http://learningsolaris.com/archives/2009/03/10/opensolaris-wifi-broadcom-bcm4312-on-dell-vostro-1710/ to build a bcmndis of my own with winxp (bcmwl5) and win7 (bcmwl6) drivers, but all 32/64-bit variants led to laptop reboot panics. So, if there is a recipe for OI - can you please share/link it on the Wiki? Or is it just a pointer to work-in-progress (i.e. when FreeBSD "bwn" driver will be finally ported, it will support such hardware)? Thanks, //Jim Klimov
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