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Date:      Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:41:07 +0100
From:      =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
To:        Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu>
Cc:        Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com>, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Wrapper for Windows-only network card binary drivers on FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <86wspx3ljw.fsf@ds4.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <CFDBE84B-1D52-4C91-927D-C8A1867ED0EF@u.washington.edu> (Garrett Cooper's message of "Thu\, 24 Jan 2008 21\:25\:33 -0800")
References:  <1201219920.47992950e4649@webmail.rawbw.com> <47993B94.9010403@elischer.org> <CFDBE84B-1D52-4C91-927D-C8A1867ED0EF@u.washington.edu>

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Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> writes:
> Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> writes:
> > I Believe the linux wrapper concept was copied from the freebsd one
> > which was originally called "Project Evil"
> Is it the other way around (Project Evil isa ndiswrapper port, etc),
> or something else..?

Project Evil is not a port of anything; it was developed from scratch by
Bill Paul for Wind River Systems.  It was started at roughly the same
time as ndiswrapper, or possibly slightly earlier.

> Wikipedia also claims that ndiswrapper has more functionality than
> P.E., but I dunno if that's true or not:

I don't think it is, but I'm not entirely sure.  Project Evil seems to
have USB attachments, but I've never tried to use it with a USB device,
so I don't know how functional they are.  Bill Paul (wpaul@) would be
the right person to ask.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no



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