Recommended wireless card (or is there a chance to get either iwi or ath fixed)?

Sam Leffler sam at freebsd.org
Wed Feb 25 08:45:42 PST 2009


Chris Rees wrote:
> 2009/2/25 Paul B. Mahol <onemda at gmail.com>:
>   
>> On 2/24/09, SDH Support <admin at stardothosting.com> wrote:
>>     
>>>> I tried using my ath based D-Link DWL G650, which still seems to have
>>>> some issues in regard to interrupt handling:
>>>>         
>>> I've been able to get /most/ wireless cards working with ndiswrapper.
>>>       
>> *BSD doesnt have ndiswrapper.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Paul
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>>     
>
> Yeah it does...
>
> [chris at amnesiac]~% ndisgen
>        ==================================================================
>        ------------------ Windows(r) driver converter -------------------
>        ==================================================================
>
>        This script is designed to guide you through the process
>        of converting a Windows(r) binary driver module and .INF
>        specification file into a FreeBSD ELF kernel module for use
>        with the NDIS compatibility system.
>
>        The following options are available:
>
>        1] Learn about the NDIS compatibility system
>        2] Convert individual firmware files
>        3] Convert driver
>        4] Exit
>
>        Enter your selection here and press return:
>
>   
"ndiswrapper" refers to the linux version of the Bill Paul's project for 
freebsd.  They are very different; though have the same goal.

    Sam



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