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On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 15:19 -0700, Steve Franks wrote:
> Am I crazy?
> 
> Steve

Not really. Check out linux-kmod-compat in ports. However, there is
catch ;) I'm just checking into some details now- I'm not sure if you
have to build the driver or you can just use one prebuilt in an rpm.