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Date:      Thu, 24 Jan 2008 18:14:38 -0600
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org>
To:        Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Wrapper for Windows-only network card binary drivers on FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <20080125001438.GA28902@lor.one-eyed-alien.net>
In-Reply-To: <1201219920.47992950e4649@webmail.rawbw.com>
References:  <1201219920.47992950e4649@webmail.rawbw.com>

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On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 04:12:00PM -0800, Yuri wrote:
> I am curious is there an effort in FreeBSD similar to Linux NDISwrapper?
>=20
> NDISwrapper taked Windows XP binary driver and runs it on Linux.
> http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/joomla/
> They add the converter between Linux kernel API and the subset of
> Windows kernel API sufficient to run binary driver.
>=20
> I know that few USB Webcams are supported in the similar way on FreeBSD
> recompiling Linux source drivers. Also Mplayer is using similar
> approach wrapping around Windows-only binary codecs.
>=20
> But is these such thing for network cards on FreeBSD?

man ndisgen

-- Brooks

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