From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 28 19:02:45 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 2751E106566C for ; Sat, 28 Mar 2009 19:02:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chris@young-alumni.com) Received: from mail.oldschoolpunx.net (cpe-72-177-10-243.austin.res.rr.com [72.177.10.243]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F380A8FC08 for ; Sat, 28 Mar 2009 19:02:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chris@young-alumni.com) Received: by mail.oldschoolpunx.net (Postfix, from userid 58) id 0780D6F882; Sat, 28 Mar 2009 14:02:44 -0500 (CDT) Received: from [192.168.8.101] (unknown [192.168.8.1]) by mail.oldschoolpunx.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5825E6F86B for ; Sat, 28 Mar 2009 13:58:50 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <0A57F174-7219-4E5D-AF02-0F03D5CC286E@young-alumni.com> From: Chris Ruiz To: net@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20090325054021.GA9518@weongyo.cdnetworks.kr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v930.3) Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 13:58:48 -0500 References: <41D96B7F-F76D-4F35-BA1D-0EDF810E6140@young-alumni.com> <200903250159.n2P1xMti096589@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> <20090325054021.GA9518@weongyo.cdnetworks.kr> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.930.3) Cc: 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: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 19:02:45 -0000 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