Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 10:01:55 -0500 From: Scot Hetzel <swhetzel@gmail.com> To: Florent Thoumie <flz@xbsd.org> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Call for Testers: sysutils/ndistool Message-ID: <790a9fff05051208016e615e00@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1115883665.2690.7.camel@localhost> References: <1115852799.758.7.camel@localhost> <790a9fff0505111837d3d324d@mail.gmail.com> <1115883665.2690.7.camel@localhost>
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On 5/12/05, Florent Thoumie <flz@xbsd.org> wrote:
> > 2. A user may have a couple of different ndis using device installed.
> > It would be nice if the installed if_ndis could be renamed when
> > installed.
>=20
> I'm not much into kern stuff, but I think ndis/if_ndis is quite
> hardcoded in the driver so renaming if_ndis.ko to
> if_ndis_{id}.ko wouldn't help, since it'll only load once. I
> wondered how I could use ndis with two different drivers but
> haven't found an answer. I'm not sure too if I need to keep .sys
> and .inf file once the ndiscvt step is ok.
>=20
> I hope there's not much people with more than one ndis device,
> usually you'll use it with an embedded wlan chip (centrino
> laptops) or with an unsupported pci/pcmcia/cardbus card. I guess
> people wouldn't want to buy unsupported hardware twice. Btw
> that's a good point.
>=20
You may want to read Bill Paul's up coming changes to the driver:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2005-April/048957.html
Scot
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