On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Jerry <[email protected]> wrote: > Apparently, FreeBSD does not have a driver for a Linksys WUSB600N > network adapter. I was thinking of using the ndisgen utility to create > a driver via the WinXP version. I have three questions. > > 1) The WinXP driver was for an x386 machine. I have a FreeBSD-8/amd64 > PC. From man NDIS(4): > > "Note that this means the ndis driver is only useful on x86 machines." > > Am I therefore to assume that even if I do convert the Windows Driver > to FreeBSD form, it will not work?
You can not use 32bit driver on 64bit OS, NDISulator will panic (I have patch for that if anybody is interested in comitting it). > > 2) If I do successfully extract the driver, is there any way that I can > have it compiled directly into the kernel as opposed to having it > loaded via kldload? It is possible but not practical. > 3) Is there any list that I could contact to request a driver for this > device. Since I have the device, I would be happy to work with someone > who actually knows how to write a drive since I don't posess those > skills. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
