Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 04:46:48 -0400 From: Phil Bowens <phil@bowens.cc> To: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Wireless Networking Message-ID: <41625F78.40601@bowens.cc>
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To whom it may concern:
While researching wireless networking in FreeBSD, I found the handbook
makes no mention of the NDIS "wrapper" in the upcoming 5.3-RELEASE (and
current 5.3-STABLE/5.3-BETAs). While I understand that the goal of the
handbook is to address release versions of the 4.X and 5.X trees,
perhaps there could be a small mention of the 'upcoming' support (or
current, if you don't mind running -STABLE) of the WinXP binaries for
the 802.11g cards based on non-OSS-loving-vendors' chipsets. This way,
someone Googling for 802.11g support in FreeBSD would find a static
source of information versus message boards, changelogs, etc. Doing so
would significantly reduce the possibility of someone concluding Linux
is the only OS out there that provides a [third party] NDIS wrapper. I
would be more than happy to provide a very small write-up of the basic
operation of getting an ndis card to work and basic operation of ndiscvt
if you desire.
In case I stumbled on a stale version, the link I am referring to is:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-wireless.html
Thank you very much!
Philip Bowens
phil@bowens.cc
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