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Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 13:35:52 GMT
From: Stefan Bethke <stb@lassitu.de>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: ndis(4) man page should be more specific about supported adapters
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>Number:         91506
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       ndis(4) man page should be more specific about supported adapters
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    joel
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Jan 08 13:40:02 GMT 2006
>Closed-Date:    Mon Apr 29 19:59:59 UTC 2013
>Last-Modified:  Mon Apr 29 19:59:59 UTC 2013
>Originator:     Stefan Bethke
>Release:        6.0-RELEASE
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
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.
>How-To-Repeat:
              
>Fix:
--- 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


Ideally, Bill Paul could add a section that details the exact prerequistes a NDIS miniport driver must meet to be compatible.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-doc->joel 
Responsible-Changed-By: joel 
Responsible-Changed-When: Mon Apr 22 11:04:53 UTC 2013 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Take 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=91506 
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: joel 
State-Changed-When: Mon Apr 29 19:58:36 UTC 2013 
State-Changed-Why:  
ndis USB support has been in the tree for a few years. I'm closing this PR. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=91506 
>Unformatted:
