NDIS WiFi Driver doesn't work

[Sinned]

Hello everyone,

I'm pretty new to FreeBSD, though I have some experience with other Unix-like systems. FreeBSD is installed on my laptop, running only KDE4.

Now I would like to make use of WLAN, so I started reading about ways to install a driver. I came at the following page: https://www.dan.me.uk/blog/2010/01/25/ndis-wifi-drivers-in-freebsd-project-evil/. I followed all instructions exactly (as a matter of fact I've got the same network card as in the tutorial).

My rtl8192se_sys.ko got created without errors, and I moved it to /boot/modules. After this I called kldload rtl8192se_sys to let the kernel load the module. The problem is: this kldload command should give an output similar to:

ndis0: <Realtek RTL8191SE Wireless LAN 802.11n PCI-E NIC> port 0×3000-0x30ff mem 0xfa000000-0xfa003fff irq 17 at device 0.0 on pci3
ndis0: [ITHREAD]
ndis0: NDIS API version: 5.1

Unfortunately mine doesn't output anything at all, it just returns (without errors). And if I call it again, it says it's already loaded.

There doesn't exist a network interface called ndis0 either. (only re0 (cable) and lo0 (loopback)).

I've absolutely no idea what to do, and I hope someone could help me out.

Thanks in advance,
Sinned

 

[trh411]

On what architecture are you running? Per the ndis(4), the driver only works on 32-bit systems, i.e. i386. No amd64.

 

[blackhaz]

I've used NDIS on amd64. I think it limits you to 32-bit drivers but you can run it on a 64-bit OS.

 

[trh411]

I've used NDIS on amd64. I think it limits you to 32-bit drivers but you can run it on a 64-bit OS.

Thanks for the correction @blackhaz. I have updated my "knowledge base" accordingly.