Wireless Networking

[Eric Anderson]

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



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Eric Anderson     Sr. Systems Administrator    Centaur Technology
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