From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 21 22:46:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from srcso.globis.ru (globis.ru [212.248.80.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D280B37B423 for ; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 22:46:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from raduga.dyndns.org (raduga.sochi.net [212.248.82.76]) by srcso.globis.ru (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA06553 for ; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 10:00:26 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from igor@raduga.dyndns.org) Received: (from igor@localhost) by raduga.dyndns.org (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e7M5iFE29365 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 09:44:15 +0400 Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 09:44:15 +0400 From: Igor Roboul To: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Linux loadable modules Message-ID: <20000822094415.C26882@linux.rainbow> Reply-To: igorr@crosswinds.net Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions References: <000201c0087d$2427dba0$0900fea9@lorins.ild.telecom.com> <20000818162258.A17537@localhost.bsd.net.il> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre4i In-Reply-To: <20000818162258.A17537@localhost.bsd.net.il>; from nimrodm@bezeqint.net on Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 04:22:58PM +0300 X-Operating-System: Linux linux.rainbow 2.2.14-plus-SMP X-Best-Window-Manager: Window Maker (www.windowmaker.org) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 04:22:58PM +0300, Nimrod Mesika wrote: > On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 12:58:27PM -0600, Lorin Lund wrote: > > Is it possible to use linux loadable kernel modules with FreeBSD? > > No, you can't use them. > > > There are a few devices for which there are Linux loadable device drivers > > available in binary only form. It would be nice to be able to use these. > > It would be even nicer if those drivers would be released in source > and ported to 'bsd. I think, he talks about WinModem support. Now Lucent have Linux loadable module for their winmodems. But I think that it is better to pay additional $10 (or $20) than buy winmodem (even if my month's income is not very large in Russia :-) ) -- Igor Roboul, Unix System Administrator & Programmer @ sanatorium "Raduga" http://www.brainbench.com/transcript.jsp?pid=304744 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message