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Old 4th March 2009
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Hi. Just solved my install issue and wanting to tinker with NetBSD I wanted to ask.
Is there any linux-compat source package that brings the 2.6.27 kernel?
And can linux-compat act as a sort of "ndiswrapper" (read: allows BSD to recognize my wifi card using the linux drivers included in the 2.6.27 kernel)?
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Why do you want to bring a 2.6.27 Linux kernel to a NetBSD machine? Just use Linux.

Use ndiswrapper on linux, ndisgen on bsd.

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Independently of but roughly simultaneously with the NDISwrapper project, Bill Paul of Wind River Systems developed a similar system, known as Project Evil or The NDISulator, for FreeBSD. It has since been ported to NetBSD, but not OpenBSD, due to the latter's anti-binary blob policy. The NDISulator lacks some of the functionality of NDISwrapper, such as USB support.
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Well, The reason for my question was that my wifi card isn't supported under BSD and ndiswrapper can only run it with a win98 driver. Linux however can handle the card nativelly since kernel 2.6.27 in both x86 and x64. Given a gaming situation I'm in (in my "new" PC wine works better under NetBSD than under linux) I thought that perhaps I could make linux-base be used to interface the "drivers" built into the linux kernel with my wifi card (just like ndisgen is used to interface a windows driver with he wireless card). I know it might be a patchy solution, but I just needed to know if it can be done.

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What you want to do (use Linux drivers on a BSD kernel) is not possible.
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In order to use Linux networking drivers, you need to be running off a Linux kernel for better or worse. The Linux support is generally focused on getting applications to work correctly, not kernel stuffs.

ndisgen might be a bit of a hack, but it's as close as you're gonna get without a native driver :\
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Finally took the plunge and decided for a FreeBSD 7.0 x86. At least I can now use the crappy win98 drivers to get wireless going.
And BTW (about TerryP's comment): I DO use linux, have Ubuntu and NetBSD in dualboot. What happens is that wine runs better in BSD and since I want wine for my gaming, I wanted to also get wireless going (for internet multiplayer).
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In my experience there is only one decent solution for online gaming: Windows NT 5.1 / XP Professional.
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In my experience there is only one decent solution for online gaming: Windows NT 5.1 / XP Professional.
No, thanks. I got out of the grip of Umbrel.. errr, Microsoft long ago.
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