From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 18 00:12:06 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E71FE16A41F for ; Wed, 18 Jan 2006 00:12:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from mxout3.cac.washington.edu (mxout3.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8422343D70 for ; Wed, 18 Jan 2006 00:11:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from smtp.washington.edu (smtp.washington.edu [140.142.33.9]) by mxout3.cac.washington.edu (8.13.5+UW05.10/8.13.5+UW05.09) with ESMTP id k0I0BuhZ021789 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 16:11:56 -0800 X-Auth-Received: from [192.168.0.21] (dsl254-013-145.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.254.13.145]) (authenticated authid=youshi10) by smtp.washington.edu (8.13.5+UW05.10/8.13.5+UW05.09) with ESMTP id k0I0Bstw018259 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 16:11:56 -0800 Message-ID: <43CD87C9.9020708@u.washington.edu> Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 16:11:53 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper User-Agent: Mail/News 1.5 (X11/20060113) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org References: <3040838B-3C5C-4505-926F-524ABE1B6B15@shire.net> <20060117220235.5886D43D46@mx1.FreeBSD.org> <20060117222555.GA21956@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> In-Reply-To: <20060117222555.GA21956@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIII, Probability=7%, Report='__CT 0, __CTE 0, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __SANE_MSGID 0, __USER_AGENT 0' Cc: Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs Linux X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 00:12:07 -0000 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