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Re: no ndis* at cardbus?



On Sun, Feb 01, 2009 at 06:33:39PM +0100, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
> I was wondering whether I could just use COMPAT_NDIS with a D-LINK
> DWL-650G+ instead of waiting for an acx1xx at cardbus driver...
> 
> However config(8) refuses to attach ndis at cardbus as of netbsd-4 and,
> afaict from reading the source, netbsd-5. What exactly would be needed
> to create a cardbus attachment for ndis?

There's the traditional, wrong way: copy & paste a bunch of code
from the PCI attachment to create a CardBus attachment.  There are
lots of examples of this in the tree, for example, atw(4) and
rtw(4), which derive from tlp(4).

Then there's the right way: roll CardBus into PCI. :-)

Dave

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