Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 10:18:24 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: alsemo@celcom.net.my (Ahmad Zulkarnain) Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Compiling Linux Driver under FreeBSD Message-ID: <200407151418.i6FEIO928253@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <40F66A82.9010502@celcom.net.my> from "Ahmad Zulkarnain" at Jul 15, 2004 07:29:06 PM
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> > 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" >
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