Call for Testers: sysutils/ndistool

[Scot Hetzel]

On 5/12/05, Florent Thoumie <flz at xbsd.org> wrote:
> > 2. A user may have a couple of different ndis using device installed.
> > It would be nice if the installed if_ndis could be renamed when
> > installed.
> 
>        I'm not much into kern stuff, but I think ndis/if_ndis is quite
>        hardcoded in the driver so renaming if_ndis.ko to
>        if_ndis_{id}.ko wouldn't help, since it'll only load once. I
>        wondered how I could use ndis with two different drivers but
>        haven't found an answer. I'm not sure too if I need to keep .sys
>        and .inf file once the ndiscvt step is ok.
> 
>        I hope there's not much people with more than one ndis device,
>        usually you'll use it with an embedded wlan chip (centrino
>        laptops) or with an unsupported pci/pcmcia/cardbus card. I guess
>        people wouldn't want to buy unsupported hardware twice. Btw
>        that's a good point.
> 
You may want to read Bill Paul's up coming changes to the driver:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2005-April/048957.html

Scot