[haiku-development] Re: NDIS wrapper project for Haiku (Was: Haiku Alpha Proposals & Decision)
- From: "François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 02:17:31 +0200 CEST
> 2008/8/13 Nick <tonestone57@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > Fredrick also made a good point that not everyone will have
> > internet access
> > because of network drivers. So, the easiest way for them to get
> > these
> > applications is to have them included in the image.
> >
> > The solution to network drivers is, ndiswrapper - but better done
> > for Beta.
> > Zeta has ndiswrapper too.
> > http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/joomla/
>
> FWIW, Art Y. from ReactOS mentioned to me at LW2008 that the ReactOS
> "team" (perhaps he meant just himself) may be interested in working
> with Haiku to create a ndiswrapper implementation for both systems.
>
> Since the ReactOS people have a fairly deep understanding of the
> internals of windows and the driver model - they could probably
> provide good feedback on this process. They still need to work on
> their own NDIS support as well, and Art seemed to think it would be
> interesting if both projects worked on it together.
Would be nice, though it's still a huge thing... zeta's one was quite
crashprone.
François.
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