Compiling Linux Driver under FreeBSD

Kenneth Culver culverk at sweetdreamsracing.biz
Thu Jul 15 06:45:41 PDT 2004


Quoting Ahmad Zulkarnain <alsemo at celcom.net.my>:

> Hi guys!
>
> I'm a newbie runnin FreeBSD 5.2.1 on Clevo M22ES laptop. Sorry if my
> question has been asked before. I have a built-in SmartLink modem (SiS
> chipset) and I grabbed myself the official linux driver from their
> website. Can I just compile the driver in FreeBSD? I'll be glad if
> someone can point a howto sites fer it.
>
> Thanks in advance.
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What you want to do can't be done. The best you can do really is port the
driver. The kernel internals/driver apis are totally different between linux
and FreeBSD.

Ken


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