Playing with a Netgear WG311v3 wireless card

After a quick scout around on Google, and reading a few man pages, I had a go at compiling the Netgear's WG311 Window files so that I could use it in FreeBSD 6.0.

I extracted the WG311v3.INF and WG311v3.sys files, moved them over to the FreeBSD card, then ran: 

     ndisgen WG311v3.INF WG311v3.sys 

After working through a simple wizard, and selecting the defaults, I ended up with a file called:   WG311v3_sys.ko

To get the wireless network card going, I just ran:

    kldload ndis

    kldload WG311v3_sys.ko

Thats it!  Reading the man files for ifconfig and wicontrol gave a lot of info on how to configure the NIC.  The following web page helped:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-wireless.html

However, all is not well.  I am currently stuck trying to change the channel.  When I run the command:    ifconfig ndis0 channel 3    all it does is change the 'IBSS Channel', not the 'Current Channel'.  Hmm, I will have to research this further.