On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 08:31:49AM +0100, Dave Lukes wrote: > Ron, > I'm going to regret this, but I'm gonna trust that you're right and go > take a look at it > (unless someone else steps up to the plate/wicket). > > I'm not going to even announce it, let alone discuss it, > I'm going to take a look at how much work is involved and either start > doing it or not. > > If I even mention I'm doing it, there will be a flood of "windoze > sukz", "is it GPLed?" > and "driver X won't work so it ain't worth doing" messages to distract > me. > > Do you happen to know anything about the beast to get me started? > > Cheers, > Dave.
Yes. Both Linux and Solaris have used Bill Paul's FreeBSD work to get `Project Evil' running in these operating systems. Take a look around at: /sys/dev/if_ndis/* /sys/compat/ndis/* /usr/src/usr.sbin/ndiscvt/* in the FreeBSD source repository for more info :) --Devon > > On 1 Sep 2005, at 04:59, Ronald G Minnich wrote: > > >McLone wrote: > > > >>But not only this - i am unable to write drivers for some hardware > >>because of closed specifications (nVidia, various WiFi, Adaptecs etc). > > > >speaking of this: > > > >if anybody wanted to port the bsd ndis-ulator to plan 9, or use it as > >a model for a Plan 9 driver, it would be a HUGE service, and would get > >us tons of drivers. > > > >ron
