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Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 13:23:12 -0500 (CDT)
From: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>
To: Joe Warner <rootman22@comcast.net>
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This is becoming a really annoying FAQ.

The reason nobody has ported the NIC driver is because the source code is
not provided; it's just a binary driver with a wrapper.  You'd be just as
well off trying to port the Windows driver...

I didn't look into the sound driver at all, it may be the same way.

Mike "Silby" Silbersack

On Sun, 20 Jul 2003, Joe Warner wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I was talking to someone recently about why there isn't
> support for Nvidia's Nforce drivers under FreeBSD yet.