NDIS - True OR False

[Aman Jassal]

Hello Chris,

1)
>From my personal experience, NDIS doesn't work well with Vista drivers, but 
I was working with Wifi USB dongles (and it was about 5 months ago). I had 
tried to make a NDIS driver for a Netgear WG111v2 Wifi USB dongle, using the 
Vista driver provided by Netgear, but it just never worked. However I also 
had a Netgear WG111v2 Wifi USB dongle, but I had the XP driver for it, and 
NDIS managed to produce a module that could support my dongle on a FreeBSD 
7.0 box.
Now the thing is, I have been working on that about 5 or 6 months ago, 
perhaps now the people from Project Evil have done some work to support 
Vista drivers. I was working with Wifi USB dongles, and I knew that NDIS 
does struggle to make modules to support such devices.

2)
As said previously, NDIS should work with drivers for AMD-64. But then 
again, I haven't worked with AMD-64 myself, so I can't provide strong 
support T_T

If you are looking to use FreeBSD with wireless cards or devices, I would 
suggest you take a look at the various drivers included in FreeBSD : an ; 
ath ; awi ; ipw ; iwi ; netintro ; ral ; rum ; ural ; wi ; wlan_ccmp ; 
wlan_tkip ; wlan_wep ; wlan_wauth ; zyd. Have a look at the man-pages of 
these drivers, the various devices and chipsets supported are mentionned, 
that way you can use a wireless card without having the trouble to use Ndis 
to make a kernel module to support your device. Just in case...

Hope you find it useful. Good luck


Aman Jassal



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Ruiz" <chris at young-alumni.com>
To: <net at freebsd.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 2:21 AM
Subject: NDIS - True OR False


>
> True OR False
>
> 1) NDIS only works with XP drivers.
>
> 2) NDIS only works with 32-bit drivers and wont work on amd64.
>
> There is a lot of conflicting information on various lists, forums and 
> websites regarding NDIS.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris
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