FreeBSD 5.3 Network Changes

FreeBSD (i386) can use binary Ethernet and WLAN network drivers written to the Windows XP NDIS 5.1 specification. Windows drivers are turned into FreeBSD Kernel Loadable Modules (KLDs) with the ndiscvt command :

# ndiscvt -O -i neti557x.inf -s neti557x.sys \
	-n intel0
# kldload intel0

More information is available in ndis(4), ndisapi(9), and ndiscvt(8). This functionality was written by Bill Paul.