Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 16:11:53 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs Linux Message-ID: <43CD87C9.9020708@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <20060117222555.GA21956@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> References: <3040838B-3C5C-4505-926F-524ABE1B6B15@shire.net> <20060117220235.5886D43D46@mx1.FreeBSD.org> <20060117222555.GA21956@Grumpy.DynDNS.org>
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David Kelly wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 05:00:26PM -0500, Tamouh H. wrote:
>
>>
>>> Just get a different sound card. There are lotsof
>>> inexpensive sounds cards that are probably supported by
>>> FreeBSD for just a few (10-30) $
>>>
>> Oh come on, I've been working with all Linux, FreeBSD and Windows.
>>
>> Getting a different card is not the solution. It is actually an absurd
>> suggestion which goes to prove further that Unix has not matured yet
>> to compete with Microsoft.
>>
>
> [snip]
>
> The FreeBSD 6.0 kernel has a wrapper for using binary Windows device
> drivers. IIRC the main motivator (see above) was for broad WiFi hardware
> support. Might be able to use Windows sound card drivers for all I
> know.
I don't think so... wireless cards have a specific grand unified
interface called NDIS, whereas I'm 99.9% sure that different vendors
have different interfaces for sound cards. Read:
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/ for more info on NDIS.
-Garrett
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