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 2874214 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:08:27 -0400 Message-ID: <4AAA921A.5070806@2rosenthals.com> Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:08:26 -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 12:36 pm, Dave Saville thus wrote : > 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? > > I *believe* that GenMAC's limitation insofar as USB adapters are concerned is more related to the limitations inherent in our current USB stack. Supposedly, a new USB stack is being developed for OS/2 & eCS, and hopefully, that will alleviate much of the ceilings into which we find ourselves bumping our heads. Hopefully, it will also support the new USB 3 spec (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Serial_Bus#USB_3.0 , et seq). -- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------