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| Newer page: | version 4 | Last edited on Tuesday, January 30, 2007 10:06:48 am | by IanMcDonald | |
| Older page: | version 2 | Last edited on Thursday, June 23, 2005 9:08:05 am | by DanielLawson | Revert |
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-NdisWrapper is a linux kernel module
that wraps around vendor provided [NDIS] (ie, Windows) drivers.
+NdisWrapper is a [Linux] [Kernel] [Module]
that wraps around vendor provided [NDIS] (ie, [
Windows]
) drivers.
-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.
+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.
+
+One thing I have found with NdisWrapper is that for Broadcom support I have not had success getting it working on versions greater than .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)
See Also:
* http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/.
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Part of CategoryHardware
