Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 11:36:35 +0000 From: Paul B Mahol <onemda@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Convert Windows driver via ndisgen Message-ID: <s2x3a142e751004290436t4adcfb0em986f82bdb778155b@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20100429070033.0f61e542@scorpio.seibercom.net> References: <20100429070033.0f61e542@scorpio.seibercom.net>
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On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Jerry <freebsd.user@seibercom.net> wrote: > Apparently, FreeBSD does not have a driver for a Linksys WUSB600N > network adapter. I was thinking of using the ndisgen utility to create > a driver via the WinXP version. I have three questions. > > 1) The WinXP driver was for an x386 machine. I have a FreeBSD-8/amd64 > PC. From man NDIS(4): > > "Note that this means the ndis driver is only useful on x86 machines." > > Am I therefore to assume that even if I do convert the Windows Driver > to FreeBSD form, it will not work? You can not use 32bit driver on 64bit OS, NDISulator will panic (I have patch for that if anybody is interested in comitting it). > > 2) If I do successfully extract the driver, is there any way that I can > have it compiled directly into the kernel as opposed to having it > loaded via kldload? It is possible but not practical. > 3) Is there any list that I could contact to request a driver for this > device. Since I have the device, I would be happy to work with someone > who actually knows how to write a drive since I don't posess those > skills.
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