From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 25 05:25:34 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 2560816A418 for ; Fri, 25 Jan 2008 05:25:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from mxout3.cac.washington.edu (mxout3.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.166]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1F7013C469 for ; Fri, 25 Jan 2008 05:25:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from smtp.washington.edu (smtp.washington.edu [140.142.32.139]) by mxout3.cac.washington.edu (8.13.7+UW06.06/8.13.7+UW07.09) with ESMTP id m0P5PWab026341 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Thu, 24 Jan 2008 21:25:32 -0800 X-Auth-Received: from [128.208.5.30] (shiina-1.dyn.cs.washington.edu [128.208.5.30]) (authenticated authid=youshi10) by smtp.washington.edu (8.13.7+UW06.06/8.13.7+UW07.09) with ESMTP id m0P5PVL0020021 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT); Thu, 24 Jan 2008 21:25:32 -0800 In-Reply-To: <47993B94.9010403@elischer.org> References: <1201219920.47992950e4649@webmail.rawbw.com> <47993B94.9010403@elischer.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753) X-Gpgmail-State: !signed Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Garrett Cooper Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 21:25:33 -0800 To: Julian Elischer X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.753) X-PMX-Version: 5.4.1.325704, Antispam-Engine: 2.6.0.325393, Antispam-Data: 2008.1.24.211249 X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIII, Probability=7%, Report='BODY_SIZE_800_899 0, ECARD_WORD 0, OEM_SOFTWARE_X1 0, __CP_URI_IN_BODY 0, __CT 0, __CTE 0, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __HAS_X_MAILER 0, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __OEM_SOFTWARE_1 0, __SANE_MSGID 0' Cc: Yuri , 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 05:25:34 -0000 On Jan 24, 2008, at 5:29 PM, Julian Elischer wrote: > 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" Is it the other way around (Project Evil isa ndiswrapper port, etc), or something else..? Wikipedia also claims that ndiswrapper has more functionality than P.E., but I dunno if that's true or not: . Anyone have any clarifications on those points? Just curious, again.. -Garrett