Hello, friends.
I followed the directions in the FreeBSD Handbook and everything went really well. I made a mistake the first time and made a 32 bit module but I loaded it and unloaded, no problem, didn't show ndis0 under ifconfig but when I made the 64-Bit module, as soon as I kldload the module, the kernel crashes and locks. I've tried several packages' inf and sys files but all the 64 bit ones lock the machine.
I am a little confused about firmware. There is a question in the Ndis script that asks if you want to input any firmware. I probably have that file, too, in all the driver packages but don't know which file might be firmware or I it's a whole different piece of data.
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I'm on a MacBook Pro 8,1 (Early 2009). I have everything else working but the wifi and firewire (ieee1394) port. I read that firewire would never be supported. Not sure if that's so but right now, I would just like to get off the dongle wifi.
Thanks for reading, I'm not sure what else to post to help people help me on this, please let me know.
Ward
I followed the directions in the FreeBSD Handbook and everything went really well. I made a mistake the first time and made a 32 bit module but I loaded it and unloaded, no problem, didn't show ndis0 under ifconfig but when I made the 64-Bit module, as soon as I kldload the module, the kernel crashes and locks. I've tried several packages' inf and sys files but all the 64 bit ones lock the machine.
I am a little confused about firmware. There is a question in the Ndis script that asks if you want to input any firmware. I probably have that file, too, in all the driver packages but don't know which file might be firmware or I it's a whole different piece of data.
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FreeBSD hoth 12.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE GENERIC amd64
I'm on a MacBook Pro 8,1 (Early 2009). I have everything else working but the wifi and firewire (ieee1394) port. I read that firewire would never be supported. Not sure if that's so but right now, I would just like to get off the dongle wifi.
Thanks for reading, I'm not sure what else to post to help people help me on this, please let me know.
Ward