Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:41:07 +0100 From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no> To: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> Cc: Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com>, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wrapper for Windows-only network card binary drivers on FreeBSD? Message-ID: <86wspx3ljw.fsf@ds4.des.no> In-Reply-To: <CFDBE84B-1D52-4C91-927D-C8A1867ED0EF@u.washington.edu> (Garrett Cooper's message of "Thu\, 24 Jan 2008 21\:25\:33 -0800") References: <1201219920.47992950e4649@webmail.rawbw.com> <47993B94.9010403@elischer.org> <CFDBE84B-1D52-4C91-927D-C8A1867ED0EF@u.washington.edu>
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Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> writes: > Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> writes: > > 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..? Project Evil is not a port of anything; it was developed from scratch by Bill Paul for Wind River Systems. It was started at roughly the same time as ndiswrapper, or possibly slightly earlier. > Wikipedia also claims that ndiswrapper has more functionality than > P.E., but I dunno if that's true or not: I don't think it is, but I'm not entirely sure. Project Evil seems to have USB attachments, but I've never tried to use it with a USB device, so I don't know how functional they are. Bill Paul (wpaul@) would be the right person to ask. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no
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