Bug 91506
| Summary: | ndis(4) man page should be more specific about supported adapters | ||
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| Product: | Documentation | Reporter: | Stefan Bethke <stb> |
| Component: | Books & Articles | Assignee: | Joel Dahl <joel> |
| Status: | Closed FIXED | ||
| Severity: | Affects Only Me | ||
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Version: | Latest | ||
| Hardware: | Any | ||
| OS: | Any | ||
Responsible Changed From-To: freebsd-doc->joel Take State Changed From-To: open->closed ndis USB support has been in the tree for a few years. I'm closing this PR. |
The current ndis(4) man page states this in regard to supported network adapters: The ndis driver is designed to support mainly Ethernet and wireless net- work devices with PCI and PCMCIA bus attachments. (Cardbus devices are also supported as a subset of PCI.) This appears to be confusing to a number of users, as witnessed by the amount of questions about getting USB-attached adapters to work. Also note wrong capitalization of CardBus in the man page. Fix: Ideally, Bill Paul could add a section that details the exact prerequistes a NDIS miniport driver must meet to be compatible.--bTRnPK6iaOWlDNafglzN3EWzKSGOdRs2f3xScDqPavtotwU9 Content-Type: text/plain; name="file.diff" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="file.diff" --- ndis.4.orig Sun Jan 8 14:28:56 2006 +++ ndis.4 Sun Jan 8 14:32:45 2006 @@ -107,9 +107,8 @@ The .Nm driver is designed to support mainly Ethernet and wireless -network devices with PCI and PCMCIA bus attachments. -(Cardbus -devices are also supported as a subset of PCI.) +network devices. Devices must be attached through PCMCIA, PCI, or CardBus; +USB adapters are not supported. It can support many different media types and speeds. One limitation