Talk:Driver wrapper

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is there any warper system that can use M$ drivers others than wifi ones?

Both ndiswrapper and Project Evil can use, as far as I know, Ethernet drivers, and possibly other NDIS drivers, at least for LAN devices. I think most Ethernet devices have native drivers for Linux and FreeBSD, but many 802.11 devices don't, so people are more likely to use the wrappers with 802.11 drivers than they are to use them with Ethernet drivers. Guy Harris 03:28, 12 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

i dont't know well theses projects(but captive) so i think they work only under x86(true for captive when i used it(long time ago:when they were the old and unsafe ntfs drivers that weren't included in knoppix)) x86 may not be an evidence: look at the darwine project(wine under mac-os ppc)

Darwine currently only supports recompiling Windows apps to run on OS X. Wine, to quote the project's Web site, "provides both a development toolkit for porting Windows source code to Unix as well as a program loader, allowing many unmodified Windows programs to run on x86-based Unixes, including Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris". Currently, Darwine just provides the development toolkit; according to the Darwine FAQ, they're planning to incorporate the QEMU emulator to handle running x86 code on PowerPC, but that hasn't been done yet.

Whether an emulator such as QEMU could be used in any driver wrappers, and, if so, which ones it could support, is another matter. Guy Harris 03:43, 12 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]