Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 07:32:30 -0500 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> To: Phil Bowens <phil@bowens.cc> Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wireless Networking Message-ID: <4162945E.8010305@centtech.com> In-Reply-To: <41625F78.40601@bowens.cc> References: <41625F78.40601@bowens.cc>
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Phil Bowens wrote: > 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 Sounds like a great idea to me! If you'd like, the doc team would appreciate a diff in sgml/docbook format, otherwise you can whip it up in plain text and someone can mark it up for you (I might be able to, if I get a little time).. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. ------------------------------------------------------------------
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