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David Chisnall <theraven@sucs.org> wrote:
> On 12 Aug 2005, at 19:54, Fabian Keil wrote:
>=20
> > "My" "old way" is described in
> > <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2005-July/=20
> > 016753.html>:
> >
> > That's all I did.
> >
> > The "new old way" looks like a mix to me, but perhaps it's
> > just another possible way to build ndis with a certain code
> > version I never used.
>=20
> The only documentation that I could find the first time I used =20
> Project Evil was in the mailing list post announcing Project Evil =20
> (which pointed me at the ndiscvrt man page). The documented `old =20
> way' from the article assumes that you are building the firmware into =20
> the kernel module. This is not required, but if you don't do it then =20
> the ndis interface doesn't come up until after boot so using things =20
> like DHCP is a pain. After trying both ways, I came to the =20
> conclusion that building the firmware in was slightly more =20
> complicated at install time, but much less hassle in the long run, so =20
> I recommended everyone do it.
You're right, I forgot that some cards do need additional steps.
=20
> The current implementation in the handbook doesn't seem to mention =20
> firmware at all (so will only work on a very small number of cards =20
> where the firmware is in flash / rom).
There's a small note:
|Note: Some Windows drivers require additional files to operate.
|You may include them with ndiscvt by using the -f option. Consult
|the ndiscvt(8) manual page for more information.
I guess "additional files" covers firmware.
Fabian
--=20
http://www.fabiankeil.de/
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