On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 12:13 PM, Jerry <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 11:36:35 +0000 > Paul <[email protected]> articulated: > >> On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Jerry <[email protected]> >> 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). > > OK, suppose I get the 64bit Windows driver. Could I convert that to one > FreeBSD could use? Yes, but note that NDISulator have problems on amd64 with some drivers. > > Why can't you submit the patch yourself? http://gitorious.org/NDISulator
>> > >> > 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. > > Why? It would seem like a natural extension of the entire process. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
