General Info

NDISulator is NDIS miniport driver wrapper for FreeBSD

The NDIS compatibility system is designed to let you use Windows(r) binary drivers for networking devices with FreeBSD, in cases where a native FreeBSD driver is not available due to hardware manufacturer oversight or stupidity. NDIS stands for Network Driver Interface Standard, and refers to the programming model used to write Windows(r) network drivers. (These are often called NDIS miniport drivers.)

In order to use your network device in NDIS compatibility mode, you need the Windows(r) driver that goes with it. Also, the driver must be compiled for the same architecture as the release of FreeBSD you have installed. At this time, the i386 and amd64 architectures are both supported. Note that you cannot use a Windows*/i386* driver with FreeBSD*/amd64* or Windows*/amd64* driver with FreeBSD*/i386*.