NDIS problem on FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE (I think)....

From: Eric Schuele (E.Schuele_at_Comcast.Net)
Date: 09/30/04

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Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 22:53:38 -0500

    Hello,

    I'm not sure who to go to with this. I managed to get everything installed
    the way I like it on my Dell laptop... including the miniPCI WLAN adapter
    using the NDIS wrapper for Windows Drivers.

    It appears to work flawlessly when I am within range of a WAP... but when I am
    at the office (where there are none)... I occasionally get completely locked
    up. If I leave it locked up for a minute or so, it dies and reboots itself.
    I might think it is my wired interface except I can run on it all night at
    home (WAP is present). Guess I could try disabling my WAP at home and run
    wired. But its a bit random.... so I could be like that for hours at home.

    It generally happens 2-3 times in an 8 hour period. Saw it happen once when I
    manually ran dhclient. If I manually unload the NDIS modules after booting
    up... It never happens. So I suspect the NDIS wrapper.

    I realize the work may not be completed on these wrappers... but though maybe
    if I could let the appropriate folks know... maybe they could fix it before
    it becomes a real problem.

    Any help is appreciated.
    Eric

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