From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 15 14:18:32 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AF6016A4CE for ; Thu, 15 Jul 2004 14:18:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2B1343D53 for ; Thu, 15 Jul 2004 14:18:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) id i6FEIO928253; Thu, 15 Jul 2004 10:18:25 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200407151418.i6FEIO928253@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: alsemo@celcom.net.my (Ahmad Zulkarnain) Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 10:18:24 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <40F66A82.9010502@celcom.net.my> from "Ahmad Zulkarnain" at Jul 15, 2004 07:29:06 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Compiling Linux Driver under FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 14:18:32 -0000 > > Hi guys! > > I'm a newbie runnin FreeBSD 5.2.1 on Clevo M22ES laptop. Sorry if my > question has been asked before. I have a built-in SmartLink modem (SiS > chipset) and I grabbed myself the official linux driver from their > website. Can I just compile the driver in FreeBSD? I'll be glad if > someone can point a howto sites fer it. No. A driver is too low level to be ported by merely recompiling it. There are many applications on Linux that can be merely recompiled under FreeBSD and maybe tweaked a bit and then just run. But, you would have to do some porting work to make a driver from Linux work in FreeBSD. But, if you can handle doing the porting, be encouraged to do it and then submit it to FreeBSd. That is how many of them get in. ////jerry > > Thanks in advance. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >