Installing an Unsupported Driver

[Vulpes Velox]

On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 12:41:46 -0400
<wilddragon at cox.net> wrote:

> I have an old HP J2575 10/100 ethernet card that does not seem to be supported
> by FreeBSD.  I found a driver for it on the Debian Linus web site.  
> 
> Can I install the Debian driver in FreeBSD, or must I switch to Debian to make
> this particular machine useful?
> 
> If I can install a new driver in FreeBSD, any hint of a direction to  the
> appropriate documentation would be appreciated.

1: FreeBSD is not linux.
2: linux kernel modules do not work on linux compat, which only does binaries.