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

[Bachilo Dmitry]

В сообщении от Friday 25 January 2008 11:25:33 Garrett Cooper написал(а):
> 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

FreeBSD's ndis works perfectly, and it worked long before it apeared in Linux. 
Just type 'ndisgen' and the interactive script will do everything for you, so 
why bother?

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