Strange thing with NDIS

[Slesarev]

I have Acer Aspire 9410z, with wireless net card.
The pciconf tells me the following:

none1@pci0:5:0:0: class=0x028000 card=0x04221468 chip=0x431114e4 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation'
device = 'Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-PCI Card'
class = network
cap 01[40] = powerspec 2 supports D0 D1 D2 D3 current D0
cap 05[58] = MSI supports 1 message
cap 10[d0] = PCI-Express 1 legacy endpoint

Well, there is no unix-driver for this card. I`ve sucessfully (i think) NDISed the original MSWindows driver, sucessfully kldloaded it, but the device did not arrive anywhere. What is wrong here?

(the card was working under infodel OS)

[richardpl]

And dmesg reports some messages?

[Slesarev]

No, it didn`t.

[richardpl]

Explain what you did.

There is *BSD bwi driver for that card, link is available on this forum.

[Slesarev]

Thanks, now it works.
And - anyway - what was wrong? I did it right as it is written in handbook, and I tried other ways - without that script, by renaming *.o into *.ko and copying it into /boot/modules, /boot/kernel
And result was just similar - the modules were loaded, but no device arrived.

[richardpl]

You still did not say whay you have done.

by renaming *.o into *.ko and copying it into /boot/modules, /boot/kernel

Bad, you should never rename *.o files to *.ko files, *.ko files should be generated automatically with ndisgen.
With this card there should be only one *.ko file named "bcmwl5_sys.ko" and that file or any other should be moved to /boot/modules/ and not to /boot/kernel/

After file have been moved it is loaded with command:
# kldload bcmwl5_sys

Also put in /boot/loader.conf this line:

bcmwl5_sys_load=YES so that you dont need to load file after every boot.