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Linux can use MS drivers
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quote: Montreal, Canada -- it is called "DriverLoader" and created by Linuxant Inc. Simply put, it is a revolutionary "compatibility wrapper" allowing standard Windows NDIS 5.0 drivers (the network driver standard used by Windows and on an earlier spec revision by OS/2 too) as shipped by hardware vendors for windows users to be used as-is on Linux x86 systems as well.
Driverloader immediately gives Linux users the ability to use network cards "for which no adequate native open source drivers are available" -the company claims. The company has currently released a technology "demo" that allows owners of 802.11g 54mbps Wireless LAN devices (CardBus and PCI) based on Broadcom chipsets to use their devices under Linux.
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quote: Currently, and apparently for a limited time, DriverLoader packages can be downloaded and a free trial licence obtained from Linuxant's web site at no cost. It supports the most popular 2.4 and 2.6 kernel based distros like RedHat, SuSE, Mandrake, and Debian.
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Master of Reality:
sounds interestingly devious.
Commander:
interesting article. wondering though, when the projects are done, will they be able to emulate all win32 drivers or will they be emulating only drivers in a certain category (printer, video etc)
hm_murdock:
how does it use Windows video drivers?
wouldn't that require the OS has an integral graphic framework?
no, they didn't figure out how to make X11 use a modern driver architecture
Laukev7:
Now, if they could do that on OS X, THAT would be great.
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