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Date:      Thu, 7 Aug 2008 16:52:47 +1000
From:      Warren Liddell <shinjii@maydias.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        David Gurvich <david.gurvich@verizon.net>
Subject:   Re: Wireless net Card
Message-ID:  <200808071652.48133.shinjii@maydias.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080807002141.319b3ffd@verizon.net>
References:  <200808051748.55133.shinjii@maydias.com> <200808070641.53857.shinjii@maydias.com> <20080807002141.319b3ffd@verizon.net>

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On Thursday 07 August 2008 14:21:41 David Gurvich wrote:
> FreeBSD and Linux are different operating systems.  There is no
> compatibility between them.  FreeBSD has an emulation layer which works
> for a limited subset of Linux binary programs.  These are not kernel
> drivers.   Your best bet on FreeBSD is to check the status for your
> chipset in CURRENT or to try ndiswrapper.

Welp i tried the nidswrapper and made rtl8185_sys.ko, sadly when i used 
kldload it forced ma system to reboot, so im at a loss .. If i stuck the card 
in a windows machine would i be able to determine what chipset the wireles 
belkin card is using ? 



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