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3 IanMcDonald 1 NdisWrapper is a [Linux] [Kernel] [Module] that wraps around vendor provided [NDIS] (ie, [Windows]) drivers.
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3 IanMcDonald 3 This allows you to take network or wireless card with [Windows]-only drivers and have it work fairly cleanly under [Linux]. I believe NdisWrapper is based on FreeBSD's Project Evil.
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4 IanMcDonald 5 One thing I have found with NdisWrapper is that for Broadcom support I have not had success getting it working on versions greater than 0.12. The mailing list discussions bear this out as well with lots of problems with releases >1.0 -- IanMcDonald (Not sure if this still applies as I wrote this over a year ago. I would guess probably not)
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7 See Also:
8 * http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/.
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10 Part of CategoryHardware