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

Dag-Erling Smørgrav des at des.no
Fri Jan 25 08:41:17 PST 2008


Garrett Cooper <youshi10 at u.washington.edu> writes:
> Julian Elischer <julian at elischer.org> writes:
> > 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..?

Project Evil is not a port of anything; it was developed from scratch by
Bill Paul for Wind River Systems.  It was started at roughly the same
time as ndiswrapper, or possibly slightly earlier.

> Wikipedia also claims that ndiswrapper has more functionality than
> P.E., but I dunno if that's true or not:

I don't think it is, but I'm not entirely sure.  Project Evil seems to
have USB attachments, but I've never tried to use it with a USB device,
so I don't know how functional they are.  Bill Paul (wpaul@) would be
the right person to ask.

DES
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