ndis & kernel

i am using a wg311v3 netgear wireless pci card with the
marvell chipset. i would
gratefully use netbsd if only the kernel were ndis enabled
by default. for the
life of me i can't get this kernel to compile. thank you for
listening.

On Sun, 27 May 2007 17:16:45 +0000 (UTC)
jim erickson <psykojimehotmail.com> wrote:

> i am using a wg311v3 netgear wireless pci card with the
marvell chipset. i would
> gratefully use netbsd if only the kernel were ndis
enabled by default. for the
> life of me i can't get this kernel to compile. thank
you for listening.

I don't get what you are requesting... there's enough info
in the
i386/ndis(4) manpage.

And no, it cannot be enabled by default because it needs
additional
files from windows drivers.

On Wed, 30 May 2007 18:33:48 +0200
Juan RP <juanxtrarom.org> wrote:

> On Sun, 27 May 2007 17:16:45 +0000 (UTC)
> jim erickson <psykojimehotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > i am using a wg311v3 netgear wireless pci card
with the marvell
> > chipset. i would gratefully use netbsd if only the
kernel were ndis
> > enabled by default. for the life of me i can't get
this kernel to
> > compile. thank you for listening.
> 
> I don't get what you are requesting... there's enough
info in the
> i386/ndis(4) manpage.
> 
> And no, it cannot be enabled by default because it
needs additional
> files from windows drivers.
> 
It would be great spot if the Windows piece could be an
LKM.


		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbi
a.edu/~smb

On Wed, 30 May 2007 13:17:14 -0400
"Steven M. Bellovin" <smbcs.columbia.edu> wrote:

> It would be great spot if the Windows piece could be an
LKM.

We'd still need to embed the object file (built with
ndiscvt(8) from 
the .INF and .SYS windows files) into the LKM, and these
files are
driver specific.

I don't know how FreeBSD does it, but I'm not sure how easy
it is.

On Wed, 30 May 2007 19:22:18 +0200
Juan RP <juanxtrarom.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 30 May 2007 13:17:14 -0400
> "Steven M. Bellovin" <smbcs.columbia.edu> wrote:
> 
> > It would be great spot if the Windows piece could
be an LKM.
> 
> We'd still need to embed the object file (built with
ndiscvt(8) from 
> the .INF and .SYS windows files) into the LKM, and
these files are
> driver specific.

Right -- convert the Windows .inf/.sys files via ndiscvt
into an LKM.
> 
> I don't know how FreeBSD does it, but I'm not sure how
easy it is.
> 
It doesn't sound easy, but this is a wonderful place to do
it.


		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbi
a.edu/~smb