Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:29:56 -0800 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.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: <47993B94.9010403@elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <1201219920.47992950e4649@webmail.rawbw.com> References: <1201219920.47992950e4649@webmail.rawbw.com>
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Yuri wrote: > I am curious is there an effort in FreeBSD similar to Linux NDISwrapper? > > 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. > I Believe the linux wrapper concept was copied from the freebsd one which was originally called "Project Evil" > 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. > > But is these such thing for network cards on FreeBSD? > > Yuri > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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