Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:05:39 +0100 From: "Aman Jassal" <aman.jassal@esigetel.fr> To: "Chris Ruiz" <chris@young-alumni.com>, <net@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: NDIS - True OR False Message-ID: <F9D686A4239647AAB7E33F4C47A86755@PCdeKimKas> In-Reply-To: <41D96B7F-F76D-4F35-BA1D-0EDF810E6140@young-alumni.com> References: <41D96B7F-F76D-4F35-BA1D-0EDF810E6140@young-alumni.com>
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Hello Chris, 1) >From my personal experience, NDIS doesn't work well with Vista drivers, but I was working with Wifi USB dongles (and it was about 5 months ago). I had tried to make a NDIS driver for a Netgear WG111v2 Wifi USB dongle, using the Vista driver provided by Netgear, but it just never worked. However I also had a Netgear WG111v2 Wifi USB dongle, but I had the XP driver for it, and NDIS managed to produce a module that could support my dongle on a FreeBSD 7.0 box. Now the thing is, I have been working on that about 5 or 6 months ago, perhaps now the people from Project Evil have done some work to support Vista drivers. I was working with Wifi USB dongles, and I knew that NDIS does struggle to make modules to support such devices. 2) As said previously, NDIS should work with drivers for AMD-64. But then again, I haven't worked with AMD-64 myself, so I can't provide strong support T_T 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... Hope you find it useful. Good luck Aman Jassal ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Ruiz" <chris@young-alumni.com> To: <net@freebsd.org> Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 2:21 AM Subject: NDIS - True OR False > > True OR False > > 1) NDIS only works with XP drivers. > > 2) NDIS only works with 32-bit drivers and wont work on amd64. > > There is a lot of conflicting information on various lists, forums and > websites regarding NDIS. > > Thanks, > > Chris > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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