From: "Lewis G Rosenthal" Received: from [192.168.100.201] (account lgrosenthal HELO [192.168.200.24]) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.16) with ESMTPSA id 2874081 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Fri, 11 Sep 2009 12:27:29 -0400 Message-ID: <4AAA7A70.8050508@2rosenthals.com> Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 12:27:28 -0400 Organization: Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.8.1.22) Gecko/20090704 SeaMonkey/1.1.17 (PmW) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless] Re: ndiswrapper References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 09/11/09 10:09 am, Neil Waldhauer thus wrote : > On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:26:58 +0100 (BST), "Dave Saville" > wrote: > > >> Is there any use investigating the linux ndiswrapper (on SourceForge)? >> It seems to do what genmac does - ie use a win driver but hooks into >> the kernel. Just wonder if we could make it an OS/2 ndis driver that >> wrapped the win stuff. >> > > I spoke with Brendan Oakley, one of the maintainers of UniAud, who felt that > the UniAud source code would make a good base to use Linux drivers in OS/2. > SNAP could also be a good driver base. That said, and per Dave's initial comment, a wrapper might (still) be the best way to go, as long as we're not constantly playing catch-up as we've seen with the GenMAC approach. Somehow, the ndiswrapper project (http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/ndiswrapper/index.php?title=Main_Page ) hasn't seemed (to me, at least) to be as harried by the newer Windows drivers and support for them. -- Lewis ------------------------------------------------------------- Lewis G Rosenthal, CNA, CLP, CLE Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC www.2rosenthals.com Need a managed Wi-Fi hotspot? www.hautspot.com Secure, stable, operating system www.ecomstation.com -------------------------------------------------------------