ndis and wireless connection documentation fix

[Fabian Keil]

"Jeff Lutzenberger" <jeffl at iesweb.com> wrote:

> I just got my Belkin (cheap) wireless card working using ndis. I was
> following the instructions in the handbook under the network-wireless
> chapter and found a nice place to get tripped up as a newbie. After
> messing around for a while I finally realized I had to copy the .ko
> file to /boot/kernel in order to kldload the module. For what ever
> reason 'make install' did not copy the module to /boot/kernel (maybe
> that's a good thing!). While I realize I should have thoroughly rtfm,
> I think the documentation could possibly be improved here. 

The documentation is outdated. When it was written, the firmware
was put into if_ndis. As you noticed, it is now a module for itself.

BTW you don't need to copy the firmware module to /boot/kernel,
you can kldload it from everywhere if you specify the path.

Fabian
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