Date: Sat, 4 May 2002 20:52:00 +0200 From: Axel Scheepers <axel@axel.truedestiny.net> To: Walid Nehme <walidn@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: linux base on freebsd Message-ID: <20020504205159.L13115@mars.thuis> In-Reply-To: <20020504163059.42193.qmail@web10004.mail.yahoo.com>; from walidn@yahoo.com on Sat, May 04, 2002 at 09:30:59AM -0700 References: <20020504163059.42193.qmail@web10004.mail.yahoo.com>
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Hello Walid, On Sat, May 04, 2002 at 09:30:59AM -0700, Walid Nehme wrote: > Dear sirs. > i usually send u email for help but not getting much > informations. I'm sorry to hear that. Just keep posting ;) > So i'm a beginner u can say and when answering my mail > instruct my with all detail information u can provide. > and a very thank for the replyer and welling to pay for it > if u need. > > 1- the question is i need to install a penta@net driver on > a freebsd 4.3 box why? because i want to use that download > satellite on freebsd not on windows nt, as i have it now > and having a lot of problems with it. > > the address for penta is : > http://www.pentamedia.com/english/supports/technical-netfile.htm > and there they provide driver for many versions of linux. > so what version of linux freebsd supports? and which one of > these drivers can i use? > > 2- how to install that driver, in freebsd file structure or > in linux file structure that freebsd has ? As far as I know. you can't run Linux drivers under FreeBSD. The emulation layer just maps the linux systemcalls to the freebsd ones, a kernel driver requires a bit more effort to work, it mostly means a rewrite to freebsd. > > 3- and plz one more time i ask u to provide me with all > the details u have to accomplish this task fullfuly. > explain to me as explaining to an ideot, because i dont > know freebsd good as expert, and dont know linux at all. That would be difficult, since you'd have to rewrite the driver for freebsd to make it work. There isn't exactly an easy way to do this, unless you've got experience writing such drivers. > > 4- i learned free from the first and not willing to learn > linux, or use it to control my download satellite Linux is quite similar to freebsd in overall use, so it isn't such a big step as you might think. Some things are surely different, but you can try it until someone ports the drivers or the producer provides them. > > ===== > Regards. > Walid Nehme > ICQ:5855336 > MSN:nastylid@hotmail.com > my homepage http://gayana.kharkov.com/Start.html > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Health - your guide to health and wellness > http://health.yahoo.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message Gr, -- Axel Scheepers UNIX System Administrator email: axel@axel.truedestiny.net a.scheepers@iae.nl http://axel.truedestiny.net/~axel ------------------------------------------ All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. -- Samuel Butler ------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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