[openbeos] Re: bounties for the new website...

"Is it worth the effort (are the important drivers in that list?"

The Linux NDIS wrapper seems to have quite an extensive supported devices list...

http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/List

From what I understand the FreeBSD version is called NDIsulator - Project Evil, and: "Thanks to the contributions of Bill Paul (wpaul), as of FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE there is ?native? support for the Network Driver Interface Specification (NDIS)"

http://www.pingwales.co.uk/2005/07/15/Project-Evil.html

So I guess all the devices supported in the list above are supported?




From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [openbeos] Re: bounties for the new website...
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 20:24:01 +0200 CEST

"Karl vom Dorff" <haikubounties@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> With regards to WiFi, the idea for a Haiku NDIS wrapper sounds most
> logical
> for Haiku in the short term;  to me anyways, since the idea is to
> attract
> people to Haiku. If there's no networking in the OS, it's probably
> pretty
> useless to most people, and therefore better to have support than not
> have
> it.

I second this; at least we don't have any market pressure whatsoever to
convince any hardware manufacture to produce drivers for Haiku.
The question is just how well it'll work. How many and which Windows
drivers are working on, say, FreeBSD or Zeta using that kind of
wrapper? Is it worth the effort (are the important drivers in that
list)?

Bye,
   Axel.



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