** Reply to message from Lewis G Rosenthal <lgrosenthal@2rosenthals.com> on Fri, 07 Oct 2005 06:24:27 -0400
But NDISWrapper wraps different MS Windows drivers, not just one, and it requires you to
supply the drivers INF and SYS files. From your comment and experience, it looks like GenMAC
just supports the one WiFi chipset. I only know this because I've used the NDISWrapper to get
the builtin Broadcom WiFi card working in my laptop running Ubuntu.
> Essentially, this is just what GenMAC does. It is a wrapper around the
> Windows driver.
>
> Look for a release within the next month (certainly before Warpstock
> Europe, November 18-20).
>
> On 10/06/2005 10:14 pm, Neil Waldhauer thus wrote :
> > On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 13:28:25 -0700, "Mark D. Overholser"
> > <os2@markoverholser.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> NDISWRAPPER
> >>
> >
> > I think GenMac is a better approach because OS/2 wants an older version of NDIS
> > than Linux or Windows.
> >
> > Anyone know If GenMac is in fact already the OS/2 version of NDISWRAPPER?
> >
> > Neil
> >
>
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