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On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 11:26 PM, grarpamp <grarpamp@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Doesn't FreeBSD have some sort of ndiswrapper function for this?
>>> http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php
>> NDISulator, ndis(4).
>
> Hmm, maybe that only applies to the Windows driver bundles as
> distributed by the vendors (Dell, HP, Lenovo, etc). Or from Microsoft
> itself as part of the OS. And not to this Linux thing.

You need inf and sys file(s), Windows drivers.
Everything is explained in documentation.