From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 29 13:49:59 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC61B106564A for ; Thu, 29 Apr 2010 13:49:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from onemda@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ww0-f54.google.com (mail-ww0-f54.google.com [74.125.82.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 819208FC08 for ; Thu, 29 Apr 2010 13:49:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwb13 with SMTP id 13so509654wwb.13 for ; Thu, 29 Apr 2010 06:49:55 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:mime-version:received:in-reply-to :references:from:date:message-id:subject:to:content-type; bh=/aTdh9z8zgn+FADcOde2Mro2FiVCETNOy69d52oRz1w=; b=BNz7nCFDIgo4Lyxw/AfglVWRXndaI4pUzrkrRwmKRNnZ3OB8B6fg0wDYUzlwhwXlTv ZENfXuhCw8F7mxA3LsE12jMKPTB6rYLFQiVylwbw9bg/TvSrtAlkZtNcR521YOF5YrSN jh5D0HHzh0zfrn2YwpplbZDZZ0hYkp+fF7y8Y= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :content-type; b=n/7+OKcXQBdYblWNvZJULWMSCFDG1l0DTpsAEWkty6mGlslhv3fPRi6O7Hpv47uFmX MpBUlQ2aMzgzxrRzVgF4sSLP1Ry5HHgPenuTOCpaBrfIuetyyFnR0FzNZeDCArMuQWou /tM9AdYlZVU+Wjm+bPKcOfHgXfNiGp4ozoQJE= Received: by 10.216.174.129 with SMTP id x1mr1950043wel.140.1272548991434; Thu, 29 Apr 2010 06:49:51 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.49.76 with HTTP; Thu, 29 Apr 2010 06:49:31 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20100429081335.13ebfe74@scorpio.seibercom.net> References: <20100429070033.0f61e542@scorpio.seibercom.net> <20100429081335.13ebfe74@scorpio.seibercom.net> From: Paul B Mahol Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 13:49:31 +0000 Message-ID: To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: Re: Convert Windows driver via ndisgen X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 13:50:00 -0000 On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 12:13 PM, Jerry wrote: > On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 11:36:35 +0000 > Paul articulated: > >> On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Jerry >> 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.