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Subject: Re: Wrapper for Windows-only network card binary drivers on FreeBSD?
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Yuri wrote:
> I am curious is there an effort in FreeBSD similar to Linux NDISwrapper?
> 
> 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.
> 

I Believe the linux wrapper concept was copied from the freebsd one
which was originally called "Project Evil"

> 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.
> 
> But is these such thing for network cards on FreeBSD?
> 
> Yuri
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