Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 17:10:40 +0200 From: Florent Thoumie <flz@xbsd.org> To: Scot Hetzel <swhetzel@gmail.com> Cc: Bill Paul <wpaul@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Call for Testers: sysutils/ndistool Message-ID: <1115910640.9236.2.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <790a9fff05051208016e615e00@mail.gmail.com> References: <1115852799.758.7.camel@localhost> <790a9fff0505111837d3d324d@mail.gmail.com> <1115883665.2690.7.camel@localhost> <790a9fff05051208016e615e00@mail.gmail.com>
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Le Jeudi 12 mai 2005 =E0 10:01 -0500, Scot Hetzel a =E9crit :
> On 5/12/05, Florent Thoumie <flz@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.
> >=20
> > 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.
> >=20
> > 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.
> >=20
> You may want to read Bill Paul's up coming changes to the driver:
>=20
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2005-April/048957.html
I dropped him an email to have answers for the two questions=20
above. This gives me some answers. I'll try to see if I can work
with him on ndistool (or win2bsd.sh or whatever the name).
I'm not reading -current, thanks a lot.
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Florent Thoumie
flz@xbsd.org
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