Wrapper for Windows-only network card binary drivers on FreeBSD?

Garrett Cooper youshi10 at u.washington.edu
Thu Jan 24 21:25:34 PST 2008


On Jan 24, 2008, at 5:29 PM, Julian Elischer wrote:

> Yuri wrote:
>> I am curious is there an effort in FreeBSD similar to Linux  
>> NDISwrapper?
>> NDISwrapper taked Windows XP binary driver and runs it on Linux.
>> http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/joomla/
>> They add the converter between Linux kernel API and the subset of
>> Windows kernel API sufficient to run binary driver.
>
> 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..?
	Wikipedia also claims that ndiswrapper has more functionality than  
P.E., but I dunno if that's true or not: <http://en.wikipedia.org/ 
wiki/NdisWrapper>.
	Anyone have any clarifications on those points? Just curious, again..
-Garrett


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