Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2006 21:34:50 +0100 From: Fabian Keil <freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de> To: "Jeff Lutzenberger" <jeffl@iesweb.com> Cc: doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ndis and wireless connection documentation fix Message-ID: <20060102213450.4a957020@localhost> In-Reply-To: <200601021947.k02JlmqE013552@mx-out.daemonmail.net> References: <200601021947.k02JlmqE013552@mx-out.daemonmail.net>
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--Sig_5ZpHHfVMMquU+y5r++kClhm Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable "Jeff Lutzenberger" <jeffl@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 I think the documentation could possibly be improved here.=20 The documentation is outdated.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 --=20 http://www.fabiankeil.de/ --Sig_5ZpHHfVMMquU+y5r++kClhm Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDuY5ujV8GA4rMKUQRAppiAJ9ZsFVlefFqyypNNhhXOJbvylxmTgCguPlh aPFZTsla5g61qvNEgQHp1V4= =POZu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_5ZpHHfVMMquU+y5r++kClhm--
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