From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 25 00:14:40 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4586716A418 for ; Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:14:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brooks@lor.one-eyed-alien.net) Received: from lor.one-eyed-alien.net (cl-162.ewr-01.us.sixxs.net [IPv6:2001:4830:1200:a1::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C738B13C455 for ; Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:14:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brooks@lor.one-eyed-alien.net) Received: from lor.one-eyed-alien.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lor.one-eyed-alien.net (8.14.1/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m0P0Ecfp029581; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 18:14:38 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from brooks@lor.one-eyed-alien.net) Received: (from brooks@localhost) by lor.one-eyed-alien.net (8.14.1/8.13.8/Submit) id m0P0EcHq029580; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 18:14:38 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from brooks) Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 18:14:38 -0600 From: Brooks Davis To: Yuri Message-ID: <20080125001438.GA28902@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> References: <1201219920.47992950e4649@webmail.rawbw.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="YZ5djTAD1cGYuMQK" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1201219920.47992950e4649@webmail.rawbw.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (lor.one-eyed-alien.net [127.0.0.1]); Thu, 24 Jan 2008 18:14:38 -0600 (CST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wrapper for Windows-only network card binary drivers on FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:14:40 -0000 --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--