Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 09:48:06 +1030 From: Malcolm Kay <malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> To: "Henning, Brian" <B.Henning@Navitaire.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cannot find windows driver for nic, please help Message-ID: <200403260948.06270.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> In-Reply-To: <B33A37369985DC47BAAF41511EC48078DF139C@navmmex112.corp.nt.navitaire.com> References: <B33A37369985DC47BAAF41511EC48078DF139C@navmmex112.corp.nt.navitaire.com>
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On Friday 26 March 2004 00:31, Henning, Brian wrote: > -----Original Message----- =2E... > From: Malcolm Kay [mailto:malcolm.kay@internode.on.net] > > You have me totally confused or am I missing something? How does a > > windows > > > driver help you with freebsd 5.2.1 ? > > > > Malcolm > > Project Evil (aka the NDISulator) is a special binary compatibility > layer for the FreeBSD kernel that lets you use Windows NDIS drivers > for network adapters with FreeBSD 5.2.1 > Copy from e-mail to Michael W. Oliver et al. -- On Friday 26 March 2004 00:18, Michael W. Oliver wrote: =2E.. > > You have me totally confused or am I missing something? How does a > > windows driver help you with freebsd 5.2.1 ? > > Malcolm, > > I think that Brian is referring to the NDISulator (a.k.a. - Project > Evil) that makes use of Windows(r) drivers for devices that don't have > native FreeBSD driver support. > > Check this out... > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hardware/2004-January/001005= =2Ehtm >l Obviously I was missing something -- thanks guys for bringing me=20 up-to-date -- at least in one small area ;) Malcolm
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