From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 25 16:41:16 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 EA6F016A474 for ; Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:41:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from tim.des.no (tim.des.no [194.63.250.121]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4C7513C4EF for ; Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:41:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from tim.des.no (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spam.des.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 025AC2083; Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:41:08 +0100 (CET) X-Spam-Tests: AWL X-Spam-Learn: disabled X-Spam-Score: -0.2/3.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on tim.des.no Received: from ds4.des.no (des.no [80.203.243.180]) by smtp.des.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id E485B2082; Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:41:07 +0100 (CET) Received: by ds4.des.no (Postfix, from userid 1001) id C4A8A844B6; Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:41:07 +0100 (CET) From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= To: Garrett Cooper References: <1201219920.47992950e4649@webmail.rawbw.com> <47993B94.9010403@elischer.org> Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:41:07 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Garrett Cooper's message of "Thu\, 24 Jan 2008 21\:25\:33 -0800") Message-ID: <86wspx3ljw.fsf@ds4.des.no> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.1 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Yuri , Julian Elischer , 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 16:41:17 -0000 Garrett Cooper writes: > Julian Elischer 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