From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 5 08:46:48 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68AA516A4CE for ; Tue, 5 Oct 2004 08:46:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sccimhc91.asp.att.net (sccimhc91.asp.att.net [63.240.76.165]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE80143D66 for ; Tue, 5 Oct 2004 08:46:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from phil@bowens.cc) Received: from [12.202.147.172] (12-202-147-172.client.insightbb.com[12.202.147.172]) by sccimhc91.asp.att.net (sccimhc91) with ESMTP id <20041005084646i91008ishbe>; Tue, 5 Oct 2004 08:46:47 +0000 Message-ID: <41625F78.40601@bowens.cc> Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 04:46:48 -0400 From: Phil Bowens User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: doc@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Wireless Networking X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 08:46:48 -0000 To whom it may concern: While researching wireless networking in FreeBSD, I found the handbook makes no mention of the NDIS "wrapper" in the upcoming 5.3-RELEASE (and current 5.3-STABLE/5.3-BETAs). While I understand that the goal of the handbook is to address release versions of the 4.X and 5.X trees, perhaps there could be a small mention of the 'upcoming' support (or current, if you don't mind running -STABLE) of the WinXP binaries for the 802.11g cards based on non-OSS-loving-vendors' chipsets. This way, someone Googling for 802.11g support in FreeBSD would find a static source of information versus message boards, changelogs, etc. Doing so would significantly reduce the possibility of someone concluding Linux is the only OS out there that provides a [third party] NDIS wrapper. I would be more than happy to provide a very small write-up of the basic operation of getting an ndis card to work and basic operation of ndiscvt if you desire. In case I stumbled on a stale version, the link I am referring to is: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-wireless.html Thank you very much! Philip Bowens phil@bowens.cc