From: "Andy Willis" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
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Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 12:29:05 -0600
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Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless] Re: ndiswrapper
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Lewis G Rosenthal wrote:
> 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"
>>>> <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com> 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).
>
According to the Genmac duo the problem is indeed with the USB drivers 
on OS/2.  The difficult part of making use of the ndiswrapper from linux 
is that it most likely ties into the kernel.  This makes the port more 
difficult.  There is the LXAPI32 project but I don't know that it has 
been updated in several years.
Andy