On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 05:31:25PM +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > I am owning a notebook with a built in usb-webcam (chipset: ALI M5602). As > there is no linux driver available (the only one I know is still strong beta > and is crashing my system), my idea is, to use the windows-driver with a > wrapper. Now I am searching for a wrapper (similar to ndiswrapper) which let > me load windows-drivers to the kernel. Please don't blame me, I know it > sounds weired, and I know, this is an ugly way. Of course, I know, that > windows driver are working in a very other way ! > On another hand, someone told me, there is (I do not believe it, really) , a > wrapper for this thing. > > So, please answer just my question: Do you know about a wrapper or an > interface (except ndiswrapper or the commercial "linuxant"-drivers!), which > let you use windows-drivers for special hardware other than network devices ? > > Again, please do not blame for this question.....
ndiswrapper is a special case because windows has a universal network driver interface called NDIS. Many drivers on windows are not using a universal interface so you can't write a universal wrapper. To run a webcam it would have to interface with V4L after all, which is totally different than what windows does. So unfortunately I don't think it is even possible to make such a wrapper for general purpose. There is a project trying to write a native driver for the chip though: https://sourceforge.net/projects/m560x-driver/ Of course yes it is beta and if it crashes, well either talk to the developers (maybe they have a mailing list) or try and fix the crash yourself if you can. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
