From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 7 8:41:35 2002 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 E488737B400 for ; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 08:41:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from alpha.yumyumyum.org (dsl092-171-091.wdc1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.92.171.91]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 913B143E65 for ; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 08:41:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from culverk@yumyumyum.org) Received: from alpha.yumyumyum.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by alpha.yumyumyum.org (8.12.5/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g77FfFjN004972; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 11:41:24 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from culverk@yumyumyum.org) Received: from localhost (culverk@localhost) by alpha.yumyumyum.org (8.12.5/8.12.3/Submit) with ESMTP id g77FfErT004969; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 11:41:15 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from culverk@yumyumyum.org) X-Authentication-Warning: alpha.yumyumyum.org: culverk owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 11:41:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Kenneth Culver To: Rohit Panda Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: can linux drivers run on freebsd ?? In-Reply-To: <20020807151914.23084.qmail@web12802.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20020807114004.L4711-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > i guess iam asking a bit too much.iam aware of the linux emulation layer > in FreeBSD.That means programs (binaries) compiled on Linux will run on > FreeBSD without doing anything.Is it possible that i can use a Linux > driver in binary form in FreeBSD,because i dont have the sources and so > cannot recompile it on the FreeBSD system.Or if u can think of any way > out. No, this isn't possible. Linux drivers will not work on FreeBSD. If you had source, it'd be fairly easy to port the drivers, but I guess you can't do that since you don't have the source code. Ken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message