From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 25 14:06:45 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EC2D1065724 for ; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:06:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adamk@voicenet.com) Received: from mail31.voicenet.com (mx165-125-voicenet.voicenet.com [207.103.165.125]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D6B978FC0C for ; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:06:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adamk@voicenet.com) Received: (qmail 12590 invoked from network); 25 Mar 2009 13:40:04 -0000 Received: from mail02.voicenet.com (207.103.0.202) by mail31.voicenet.com with SMTP; 25 Mar 2009 13:40:04 -0000 Received: (qmail 12600 invoked from network); 25 Mar 2009 13:40:04 -0000 Received: from adam.voicenet.com (HELO webmail.voicenet.com) (207.103.0.140) by mail02.voicenet.com with SMTP; 25 Mar 2009 13:40:04 -0000 Received: from 67.102.187.39 (proxying for 192.168.0.35) (SquirrelMail authenticated user adamk) by webmail.voicenet.com with HTTP; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 09:40:04 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <59696.67.102.187.39.1237988404.squirrel@webmail.voicenet.com> In-Reply-To: References: <41D96B7F-F76D-4F35-BA1D-0EDF810E6140@young-alumni.com> Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 09:40:04 -0400 (EDT) From: adamk@voicenet.com To: "Aman Jassal" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Cc: Chris Ruiz , net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NDIS - True OR False X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:06:47 -0000 > > 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