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On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:38:23 -0400, Tony Giaccone
<giacconefamily@mac.com> wrote:
> 
> I'm curious about the difference between FreeBSD and Darwin when it
> comes to drivers. In particular, I have a Toshiba, laptop, that I've
> installed Darwin on and would like to get a wireless networking card
> installed and working. I imagine I'm dreaming to think it's as simple
> as re-compiling the driver for the FreeBSD Xircom PCMCIA card on Darwin
> and installing that.  Can someone either confirm that I'm dreaming or
> give me some idea of how difficult a task this might be.
> 
> I don't subscribe to this list, so direct replies in email would be
> helpful.
> 
> Tony Giaccone

These might be useful:
http://lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/darwin-drivers
http://www.opendarwin.org/doc/en/articles/kext_tutorials/hello_iokit/hello_iokit.php