Talk:NDISwrapper

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Contributers might consider to clarify:

whether ndiswrapper allows one to use native Windows drivers, or something else?

something about the architecture, e.g., what Windows files are typically present, and how they are wrapped.

1 See Also
2 Installation from source
3 Name
4 too complicated opening paragraph
5 "Linus Denounces NDISWrapper, Denies It GPL Status"

[edit] See Also

Does anyone know of any other linux drivers implemented by wrapping windows libraries? This could be (and perhaps is currently) employed for other hardware.--Johnruble 17:32, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

Why is there a "See Also" link to OpenWrt? Most OpenWrt installations run on non-x86 hardware (that's even where the name comes from), and I doubt you can run NdisWrapper there. Pipatron (talk) 08:08, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Installation from source

I'd just like to say that contrary to what is stated in the article, I found ndiswrapper very easy to install from source. There is a makefile in the source tarball which automated the build and installation. Once i'd done that, it was simply a case of reading the INSTALL and README files and Installing my wi-fi card's Windows driver from the CD-rom. I use Suse Linux 10.1 and the ndiswrapper RPM package which comes as part of the distro didnt work (doh!...) Only downloading the source enabled me to get the card running at all.82.41.244.139 20:39, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

Agreed – installation from source is not as difficult as the article claims, when I first installed it a couple years ago (it was either 0.3 or 0.8 if I recall correctly, don't remember which) it was as simple as make && make install. That was before I was even building custom kernels or anything. Although then again, these days I'm building an entire Linux distro – as if I didn't blab about it enough... – and I've got an automated build script to do all the work for me ;-)

multima 18:52, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

does anybody know if using ndiswrapper uses a lot of resources - cpu, mem? security?

I too installed this from source and found it to be very easy. And it's rather insignificant as far as resources go. Man I love/hate this program! --Lewk_of_S e rthic _contrib ^talk 21:25, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Name

Shouldn't the name be NDISwrapper?

I was thinking the same thing. The name is clearly NDISwrapper. This should definitely be fixed. --Eloi 01:52, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] too complicated opening paragraph

the opening paragraph tries to explain too much, too quickly. It should be simpler. What very basically is NDISwrapper? When i first consulted this article i was still unclear, and then read some more web articles and realized that the problem was with this article.