From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 5 12:32:44 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 074F516A4CE for ; Tue, 5 Oct 2004 12:32:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: from otter3.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D19243D39 for ; Tue, 5 Oct 2004 12:32:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from [10.177.171.220] (neutrino.centtech.com [10.177.171.220]) by otter3.centtech.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id i95CWfCw060957; Tue, 5 Oct 2004 07:32:41 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <4162945E.8010305@centtech.com> Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 07:32:30 -0500 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040912 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Phil Bowens References: <41625F78.40601@bowens.cc> In-Reply-To: <41625F78.40601@bowens.cc> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 12:32:44 -0000 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------