Convert Windows driver via ndisgen

Jerry freebsd.user at seibercom.net
Thu Apr 29 11:00:48 UTC 2010


Apparently, FreeBSD does not have a driver for a Linksys WUSB600N
network adapter. I was thinking of using the ndisgen utility to create
a driver via the WinXP version. I have three questions.

1) The WinXP driver was for an x386 machine. I have a FreeBSD-8/amd64
PC. From man NDIS(4):

"Note that this means the ndis driver is only useful on x86 machines."

Am I therefore to assume that even if I do convert the Windows Driver
to FreeBSD form, it will not work?

2) If I do successfully extract the driver, is there any way that I can
have it compiled directly into the kernel as opposed to having it
loaded via kldload?

3) Is there any list that I could contact to request a driver for this
device. Since I have the device, I would be happy to work with someone
who actually knows how to write a drive since I don't posess those
skills.

-- 
Jerry
FreeBSD.user at seibercom.net

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