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suselinux

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« on: 23 October 2003, 12:00 »
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 Montreal, Canada -- it is called "DriverLoader" and created by Linuxant Inc. Simply put, it is a revolutionary "compatibility wrapper" allowing standard Windows NDIS 5.0 drivers (the network driver standard used by Windows and on an earlier spec revision by OS/2 too) as shipped by hardware vendors for windows users to be used as-is on Linux x86 systems as well.

Driverloader immediately gives Linux users the ability to use network cards "for which no adequate native open source drivers are available" -the company claims. The company has currently released a technology "demo" that allows owners of 802.11g 54mbps Wireless LAN devices (CardBus and PCI) based on Broadcom chipsets to use their devices under Linux.



 
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Currently, and apparently for a limited time, DriverLoader packages can be downloaded and a free trial licence obtained from Linuxant's web site at no cost. It supports the most popular 2.4 and 2.6 kernel based distros like RedHat, SuSE, Mandrake, and Debian.



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« Reply #1 on: 23 October 2003, 17:09 »
sounds interestingly devious.
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« Reply #2 on: 23 October 2003, 20:18 »
interesting article.  wondering though, when the projects are done, will they be able to emulate all win32 drivers or will they be emulating only drivers in a certain category (printer, video etc)
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« Reply #3 on: 23 October 2003, 21:26 »
how does it use Windows video drivers?

wouldn't that require the OS has an integral graphic framework?

no, they didn't figure out how to make X11 use a modern driver architecture
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« Reply #4 on: 24 October 2003, 01:10 »
Now, if they could do that on OS X, THAT would be great.
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« Reply #5 on: 24 October 2003, 01:24 »
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Originally posted by Laukev7: Has half Macman's posts:
Now, if they could do that on OS X, THAT would be great.


Why is that? I thought Apple provided a full load of well supported hardware. Why would anyone want to emulate the shitty windows drivers, especially on OS X?
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« Reply #6 on: 24 October 2003, 01:31 »
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Why is that? I thought Apple provided a full load of well supported hardware. Why would anyone want to emulate the shitty windows drivers, especially on OS X?


I'm glad to hear that, I intend to switch soon.
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