Bug 97229

Summary: [patch] Handbook contains obsolete instructions on NDIS
Product: Documentation Reporter: Gavin Atkinson <gavin>
Component: Books & ArticlesAssignee: Marc Fonvieille <blackend>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   
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Description Gavin Atkinson 2006-05-13 22:40:23 UTC
	The instructions at
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-wireless.html
are wrong with regards to creating an NDIS kernel module under FreeBSD 5.5,
6.0 and later.  The "old" way detailed in the handbook is deprecated and is
not guaranteed to work (and indeed, doesn't, for me...)

Fix: Note that as this is a new laptop, I don't currently have the
infrastructure to compile-test this patch: please check it doesn't break
the build before committing it.
How-To-Repeat: 	Try following the example with the standard Intel 3945ABG driver
Comment 1 Marc Fonvieille freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2006-05-16 16:25:27 UTC
Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-doc->blackend

I'm currently working on the wireless section and I'll need to work on 
NDIS as well.
Comment 2 Marc Fonvieille freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2006-07-21 10:56:52 UTC
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

Fixed in revision 1.221 of config/chapter.sgml.  Thanks.