cannot find windows driver for nic, please help

Malcolm Kay malcolm.kay at internode.on.net
Thu Mar 25 15:18:10 PST 2004


On Friday 26 March 2004 00:31, Henning, Brian wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
....
> From: Malcolm Kay [mailto:malcolm.kay at internode.on.net]
> > You have me totally confused or am I missing something? How does a
>
> windows
>
> > driver help you with freebsd 5.2.1 ?
> >
> > Malcolm
>
> Project Evil (aka the NDISulator) is a special binary compatibility
> layer for the FreeBSD kernel that lets you use Windows NDIS drivers
> for network adapters with FreeBSD 5.2.1
>

Copy from e-mail to Michael W. Oliver et al. --
On Friday 26 March 2004 00:18, Michael W. Oliver wrote:
...
> > You have me totally confused or am I missing something? How does a
> > windows driver help you with freebsd 5.2.1 ?
>
> Malcolm,
>
> I think that Brian is referring to the NDISulator (a.k.a. - Project
> Evil) that makes use of Windows(r) drivers for devices that don't have
> native FreeBSD driver support.
>
> Check this out...
>
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hardware/2004-January/001005.htm
>l

Obviously I was missing something -- thanks guys for bringing me 
up-to-date -- at least in one small area ;)

Malcolm



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