From: "Dave Saville" Received: from [192.168.100.201] (HELO mail.2rosenthals.com) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.16) with ESMTP id 2874109 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Fri, 11 Sep 2009 12:37:15 -0400 Received: from secmgr-va.2rosenthals.com ([162.83.95.194] helo=mail2.2rosenthals.com) by secmgr-ny.randr with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.43) id 1Mm97W-0003N8-MZ for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Fri, 11 Sep 2009 12:37:14 -0400 Received: from mail.deezee.org.uk ([81.187.184.98]:58263) by mail2.2rosenthals.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Mm97N-0004VJ-1n for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Fri, 11 Sep 2009 12:37:01 -0400 Received: from bearpaw ([192.168.0.201] [192.168.0.201]) by mail.deezee.org.uk (Weasel v1.79) for ; 11 Sep 2009 17:37:02 +0100 X-CTCH-RefID: str=0001.0A020201.4AAA7CAD.0354,ss=1,fgs=0 Message-ID: <000.60310a00a27caa4a.003@deezee.org> To: "OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List" Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:36:50 +0100 (BST) In-Reply-To: References: Priority: Normal User-Agent: PMMail/3.06 (os/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-GB; i386; ver 3.06.01.1421) X-Mailer: (Demonstration) PMMail (Alpha 1) 3.06.01.1421 for OS/2 Warp 4.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [OS2Wireless] Re: ndiswrapper X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-Spam-Report: _SUMMARY_ On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 12:27:28 -0400 Lewis G Rosenthal wrote: > >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. > It also supports USB dongles. I don't think Genmac will? -- Regards Dave Saville