Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 13:58:48 -0500 From: Chris Ruiz <chris@young-alumni.com> To: net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NDIS - True OR False Message-ID: <0A57F174-7219-4E5D-AF02-0F03D5CC286E@young-alumni.com> In-Reply-To: <20090325054021.GA9518@weongyo.cdnetworks.kr> References: <41D96B7F-F76D-4F35-BA1D-0EDF810E6140@young-alumni.com> <200903250159.n2P1xMti096589@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> <20090325054021.GA9518@weongyo.cdnetworks.kr>
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On Mar 25, 2009, at 12:40 AM, Weongyo Jeong wrote: > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 09:59:22PM -0400, Garrett Wollman wrote: >> In article <41D96B7F-F76D-4F35-BA1D-0EDF810E6140@young-alumni.com>, >> "Chris" writes: >> >>> True OR False >>> >>> 1) NDIS only works with XP drivers. >> >> Can't answer that as I've never needed to try a Vista driver. > > AFAIK NDISulator try to mimic that it works on Windows XP and the > driver > depends on the version of NDIS driver that normally it's 5.0 or > 5.1. I > know Vista driver uses NDIS 6.x that isn't supported by NDISulator. Thank you. >>> 2) NDIS only works with 32-bit drivers and wont work on amd64. >> >> False, unless someone has broken it recently. Project Evil has >> worked >> on 64-bit systems (and *requires* 64-bit drivers on such systems) >> since I bought my current laptop ~three years ago. > > Yes it should work on amd64. If not it's a regression. I am reporting back that I have successfully got my MacBook's Broadcom 4328 to work with a bcmwl5 driver from a Dell driver distribution on amd64 8-CURRENT. The drivers that came with my MacBook were Vista drivers. A few problems: transfers rarely go over 200kb/s, the system dead locks when rebooting, I have to manually run dhclient even though it's set to run in rc.conf, and I get error messages about an unsupported mode. I don't expect any of these problems to get fixed, I would just like others to know what to expect. Chris
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