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Date:      Wed, 25 Mar 2009 09:40:04 -0400 (EDT)
From:      adamk@voicenet.com
To:        "Aman Jassal" <aman.jassal@esigetel.fr>
Cc:        Chris Ruiz <chris@young-alumni.com>, net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: NDIS - True OR False
Message-ID:  <59696.67.102.187.39.1237988404.squirrel@webmail.voicenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <F9D686A4239647AAB7E33F4C47A86755@PCdeKimKas>
References:  <41D96B7F-F76D-4F35-BA1D-0EDF810E6140@young-alumni.com> <F9D686A4239647AAB7E33F4C47A86755@PCdeKimKas>

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>
> 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...

For what it's worth, I've actually had more luck with ndis with my 2200BG than I had
with the iwi driver:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/131153

Adam








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