Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 18:14:38 -0600 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org> To: Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wrapper for Windows-only network card binary drivers on FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20080125001438.GA28902@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> In-Reply-To: <1201219920.47992950e4649@webmail.rawbw.com> References: <1201219920.47992950e4649@webmail.rawbw.com>
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--YZ5djTAD1cGYuMQK Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 04:12:00PM -0800, Yuri wrote: > I am curious is there an effort in FreeBSD similar to Linux NDISwrapper? >=20 > NDISwrapper taked Windows XP binary driver and runs it on Linux. > http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/joomla/ > They add the converter between Linux kernel API and the subset of > Windows kernel API sufficient to run binary driver. >=20 > I know that few USB Webcams are supported in the similar way on FreeBSD > recompiling Linux source drivers. Also Mplayer is using similar > approach wrapping around Windows-only binary codecs. >=20 > But is these such thing for network cards on FreeBSD? man ndisgen -- Brooks --YZ5djTAD1cGYuMQK Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFHmSnuXY6L6fI4GtQRAj4rAJ9dVsqfO8Vz60qhsJaiP8PL1ECmVwCfdTuk aTQX2/8S5EV/h6TGW3A/dfc= =c8b+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --YZ5djTAD1cGYuMQK--
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