From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 12 15:01:56 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E5A316A4CE for ; Thu, 12 May 2005 15:01:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.193]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D62D643D60 for ; Thu, 12 May 2005 15:01:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from swhetzel@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 69so511355wri for ; Thu, 12 May 2005 08:01:55 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Q4eGxBSa58UQxYDLx7tsMGcuH9JFFhUWUIXg1pHKXxDP252JGMSCQHCFpbf9DfTq7piionM6KxotY2ZvflxjiTu+fptdnxwkW42bEZWmM2OIxXWDP67XeoHjMMujBZvQ1b4/vqrYTG8phpXLC+toJwNuGKXvkVvbPas1w/JHmUA= Received: by 10.54.6.63 with SMTP id 63mr1010605wrf; Thu, 12 May 2005 08:01:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.29.77 with HTTP; Thu, 12 May 2005 08:01:55 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <790a9fff05051208016e615e00@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 10:01:55 -0500 From: Scot Hetzel To: Florent Thoumie In-Reply-To: <1115883665.2690.7.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <1115852799.758.7.camel@localhost> <790a9fff0505111837d3d324d@mail.gmail.com> <1115883665.2690.7.camel@localhost> cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Call for Testers: sysutils/ndistool X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Scot Hetzel List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 15:01:56 -0000 On 5/12/05, Florent Thoumie wrote: > > 2. A user may have a couple of different ndis using device installed. > > It would be nice if the installed if_ndis could be renamed when > > installed. >=20 > I'm not much into kern stuff, but I think ndis/if_ndis is quite > hardcoded in the driver so renaming if_ndis.ko to > if_ndis_{id}.ko wouldn't help, since it'll only load once. I > wondered how I could use ndis with two different drivers but > haven't found an answer. I'm not sure too if I need to keep .sys > and .inf file once the ndiscvt step is ok. >=20 > I hope there's not much people with more than one ndis device, > usually you'll use it with an embedded wlan chip (centrino > laptops) or with an unsupported pci/pcmcia/cardbus card. I guess > people wouldn't want to buy unsupported hardware twice. Btw > that's a good point. >=20 You may want to read Bill Paul's up coming changes to the driver: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2005-April/048957.html Scot