ndis driver adapter layer for FreeBSD?

stan stanb at panix.com
Tue Nov 30 19:35:44 PST 2004


On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 05:29:52PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote:
> In the last episode (Nov 30), stan said:
> > I've picked up a wireless card cheap, but it appears to have no
> > support under FreeBSD.
> > 
> > I was wondering if it was possible to soehow (linux emulation?) use
> > the ndis driver adaper software that exists under Linux to provide a
> > way of using teh windoze drivers for this card?
> > 
> > If so, could someone point me to some docs?
> 
> FreeBSD had it first :)
> 
> man ndis, ndiscvt
> 
Hmm, 

$ man ndis
No manual entry for ndis
stan at black.fas.com:/home/stan
$ man ndiscvt
No manual entry for ndiscvt

Must be a 5.x feature?

In any case, thnaks for the pointer. I guess it's time to build a 5.x
machine. Is 5.x ready for laptop type hardware? The last time I tried
that branch it was not ready for prime time, but that was a few months
back.

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