Re: ndis problems

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <20100604030839.GA6905%SDF.LONESTAR.ORG@localhost>,
Vlad D.Markov <markov%freeshell.org@localhost> wrote:
>I am trying to use ndis to drive a WG311v3 wireless NIC. I didn't
>see a driver for it in NetBSD which I'd prefer. I am using
>NetBSD 5.0.2 on an i386.
>
>I followed the directions as on the man page for ndis. I made
>ndis_driver_data.h:
>
>ndiscvt -O -i WG311v3.INF -s WG311v3XP.sys -o ndis_driver_data.h
>
>I copied the generic kernel, uncommented the 2 lines as directed:
>
>options         COMPAT_NDIS     # NDIS network driver
>ndis*   at pci? dev ? function ?        # Experimental - NDIS Network Driver
>
>I config'ed the new file.
>Copied ndis_driver_data.h into the compile directory.
>Did a "make depend"
>Did a "make" which fails:
>
>cc1: warnings being treated as errors
>../../../../dev/if_ndis/if_ndis.c: In function 'ndis_detach':
>../../../../dev/if_ndis/if_ndis.c:1187: warning: passing argument 1 of
>'mutex_destroy' from incompatible pointer type
>*** Error code 1
>
>Is there anything I can do to make this work?

You can try to compile a current kernel and see if that works.

christos