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Ethernet and Wireless drivers

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Ethernet and Wireless drivers

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I have recently been struggling to get NAS4Free to work. After some initial problems which I managed to solve, I have now come accross some driver problems. The Ethernet card isn't working, because there's no driver available for my notebook (Packard Bell EasyNote R3400) on FreeBSD .

I have managed to extract the driver .SYS and .IFO files for both my wireless and ethernet cards, and I tried to use ndisgen to get it to work, but after every attempt, I get the message "can't find kernel source tree"

Can anyone help me figuring out how I can convert the drivers, or can anyone convert them for me?

Link to Drivers: http://www.multiupload.nl/LLP0UMQ8UE

Thanks in advance!

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In general a notebook is not the best option to do a NAS because it have no SATA ports to conect Data disk, so perhaps is best option to you do not use time on it and reuse a old desktop PC.
12.1.0.4 - Ingva (revision 7743) on SUPERMICRO X8SIL-F 8GB of ECC RAM, 11x3TB disk in 1 vdev = Vpool = 32TB Raw size , so 29TB usable size (I Have other NAS as Backup)

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Re: Ethernet and Wireless drivers

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for note books & net books
one has to be the equipment lottery winner
there is no opportunity to change cards to one with a compatible chip

I use a dell mini 9 and 2 usb sticks to demonstrate NAS4Free
one for the embedded boot, one formatted UFS for the data.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VptUsZqR ... e=youtu.be
however the SD card slot is unusable/incompatible
missed the power ball on that one
4 thread 3300 Mhz Intel i3, 1 TB ZFS mirror, available RAM 7.823 Gb, 64 bit NAS4Free 9.1.0.1 rev 573 [88 watts, 48 Mbps]
2 thread 1600 Mhz atom/ion, 1 TB ZFS mirror, available RAM 3.083 Gb, 64 bit NAS4Free-9.1.0.1 rev 573 [27 watts, 35 Mbps]
2 thread 3900 Mhz AMD A6-6400K, 2 TB ZFS Mirror, available RAM 7.557 Gb, 64 bit Nas4Free 9.3.0.2.1771 [89 watts, 68 Mbps]

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