Attachment 65659 Details for Bug 97229 – ndis.diff

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>Index: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/advanced-networking/chapter.sgml
>===================================================================
>RCS file: /usr/cvs/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/advanced-networking/chapter.sgml,v
>retrieving revision 1.365
>diff -u -r1.365 chapter.sgml
>--- doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/advanced-networking/chapter.sgml	18 Mar 2005 01:56:06 -0000	1.365
>+++ doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/advanced-networking/chapter.sgml	13 May 2006 21:19:08 -0000
>@@ -1135,18 +1135,31 @@
>      </listitem>
>     </orderedlist>
>  
>-      <para>You may need to compile the &man.ndis.4; mini port driver 
>-        wrapper module. As <username>root</username>:</para> 
>-
>-    <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>cd /usr/src/sys/modules/ndis</userinput>
>-&prompt.root; <userinput>make && make install</userinput></screen>
>-
>     <para>Locate the files for your specific card. Generally, they can
>       be found on the included CDs or at the vendors' websites. In the
>       following examples, we will use
>       <filename>W32DRIVER.SYS</filename> and
>       <filename>W32DRIVER.INF</filename>.</para>
> 
>+      <para>In &os; 5.5, &os; 6.0 and later, a kernel module is created
>+        with &man.ndisgen.8; as <username>root</username>:</para>
>+
>+    <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>ndisgen <replaceable>/path/to/W32DRIVER.INF</replaceable> <replaceable>/path/to/W32DRIVER.SYS</replaceable></userinput></screen>
>+
>+      <para>The &man.ndisgen.8; utility is interactive and will prompt
>+        for any extra information it requires; it will produce a kernel
>+        module in the current directory which can be loaded as follows:</para>
>+      <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>kldload <replaceable>./W32DRIVER.ko</replaceable></userinput>
>+
>+      <para>Under &os; 5.4 and before, the process of creating the kernel
>+        module is more involved, and is detailed next.</para>
>+
>+	<para>You may need to compile the &man.ndis.4; mini port driver 
>+        wrapper module. As <username>root</username>:</para> 
>+
>+    <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>cd /usr/src/sys/modules/ndis</userinput>
>+&prompt.root; <userinput>make && make install</userinput></screen>
>+
>     <para>The next step is to compile the driver binary into a
>       loadable kernel module. To accomplish this, as
>       <username>root</username>, go into the

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