Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 13:49:31 +0000 From: Paul B Mahol <onemda@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Convert Windows driver via ndisgen Message-ID: <j2v3a142e751004290649wc8c14c91x8e1bd7421643fa7d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20100429081335.13ebfe74@scorpio.seibercom.net> References: <20100429070033.0f61e542@scorpio.seibercom.net> <s2x3a142e751004290436t4adcfb0em986f82bdb778155b@mail.gmail.com> <20100429081335.13ebfe74@scorpio.seibercom.net>
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On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 12:13 PM, Jerry <freebsd.user@seibercom.net> wrote: > On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 11:36:35 +0000 > Paul <onemda@gmail.com> articulated: > >> On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Jerry <freebsd.user@seibercom.net> >> wrote: >> > Apparently, FreeBSD does not have a driver for a Linksys WUSB600N >> > network adapter. I was thinking of using the ndisgen utility to >> > create a driver via the WinXP version. I have three questions. >> > >> > 1) The WinXP driver was for an x386 machine. I have a >> > FreeBSD-8/amd64 PC. From man NDIS(4): >> > >> > "Note that this means the ndis driver is only useful on x86 >> > machines." >> > >> > Am I therefore to assume that even if I do convert the Windows >> > Driver to FreeBSD form, it will not work? >> >> You can not use 32bit driver on 64bit OS, NDISulator will panic (I >> have patch for that if anybody is interested in comitting it). > > OK, suppose I get the 64bit Windows driver. Could I convert that to one > FreeBSD could use? Yes, but note that NDISulator have problems on amd64 with some drivers. > > Why can't you submit the patch yourself? http://gitorious.org/NDISulator >> > >> > 2) If I do successfully extract the driver, is there any way that I >> > can have it compiled directly into the kernel as opposed to having >> > it loaded via kldload? >> >> It is possible but not practical. > > Why? It would seem like a natural extension of the entire process.
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