Convert Windows driver via ndisgen

[Paul B Mahol]

On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Jerry <freebsd.user at seibercom.net> wrote:
> 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?

You can not use 32bit driver on 64bit OS, NDISulator will panic (I
have patch for that if anybody is interested in comitting it).
>
> 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?

It is possible but not practical.

> 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.