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Date:      Fri, 28 Nov 2003 13:06:17 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        aydun <aydun@ntlworld.com>
Cc:        freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Compiling Linux modem drivers on FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <20031128210617.GA87144@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <3FC7012F.1040900@ntlworld.com>
References:  <3FC7012F.1040900@ntlworld.com>

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On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 08:02:55AM +0000, aydun wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> I've ended up with a SmartLink PCI softmodem (SmartPCI561).  SmartLink
> provide some drivers for Linux which apparently are quite good at
> ftp://ftp.smlink.com/linux/unsupported/
>=20
> This comes as some source code and some object files with needs to
> compiled against a kernel source tree - which looks simple enough on Linu=
x.
>=20
> I have the linux_base port installed on FreeBSD 4.9.  I don't have a
> Linux kernel source tree, but is it just a matter of compiling against=20
> the Linux kernel source and linking the Linux libraries?
>=20
> Even assuming it does compile, what are the chances of it actually workin=
g?

Zero, without changes to turn it into a FreeBSD driver.

Kris

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