From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 2 19:47:47 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: doc@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 667C516A41F for ; Mon, 2 Jan 2006 19:47:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jeffl@iesweb.com) Received: from mx-out.daemonmail.net (mx-out.daemonmail.net [216.104.160.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1E1343D46 for ; Mon, 2 Jan 2006 19:47:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jeffl@iesweb.com) Received: from localhost.daemonmail.net (localhost.daemonmail.net [127.0.0.1]) by mx-out.daemonmail.net (8.13.1/8.12.9) with SMTP id k02JlmqE013552 for ; Mon, 2 Jan 2006 11:47:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jeffl@iesweb.com) Message-Id: <200601021947.k02JlmqE013552@mx-out.daemonmail.net> Received: from [70.57.238.202] (via account 933) by mx-out.daemonmail.net with ESMTP id XW303b92 authenticated by POP; Mon, 02 Jan 2006 11:47:47 -0800 (PST) From: "Jeff Lutzenberger" To: Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2006 12:54:43 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.5510 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 Thread-index: AcYP1l/B8iz/FnmjTBCJpvy2tpmYtQ== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: ndis and wireless connection documentation fix X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2006 19:47:47 -0000 I'm very new to BSD but I really like the architecture and am having a blast with it so far, thank you thank you thank you! 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. The procedure for me became: # ndiscvt -i my_network_driver.inf -s my_network_driver.sys -o ndis_driver_data.h # make && make install # cp my_network_driver.ko /boot/kernel # kldload if_ndis # kldload my_network_driver As opposed to the following procedure given in the handbook: # ndiscvt -i my_network_driver.inf -s my_network_driver.sys -o ndis_driver_data.h # make && make install # kldload ndis # kldload if_ndis Is this a special case for the Belkin card or is this a common problem/procedure? Jeff