[driverloader] Interesting...

[Fernando Cassia]

Hi,

First I want to say thanks to the folks at Linuxant for thinking about 
this. As a former OS/2 user I remember proposing as far back as 1994 in 
some mailing list the idea of "running win32 drivers seamlessly" by 
creating a "wrapper" around win32 drivers.... everybody said I was nuts 
and that it was impossible. Well, this linux project confirms my theory 
that NOTHING is impossible from a programming point of view. You just 
have to put enough brains for enough time thinking about ways to achieve 
the goal.... :o)

After the kudos...  I'd like to know if this driver loader allows the 
use of ANY "ndis5" compatible networking driver for win32 on linux, or 
just a subset, somehow tweaked to work only on wireless cards. (which 
would be strange since from a drivers point of view and afaik, the OS 
doesn't care if the signals go over ethernet, wireless, or carrier 
pigeons, as long as the driver complies with the ndis specs and win32 
apis...).

Regards
Fernando

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