Wireless Networking

[Phil Bowens]

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 at bowens.cc