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

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