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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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