Ubuntu Dial up settings

[Alan McKinnon]

On Wednesday 10 May 2006 09:05, Chanchao wrote:
> By the way, I wonder: Could't Wine run a Windows softmodem driver??

No, unfortunately it can't. Pity.

Wine is a layer on top of the Unix kernel, and Win drivers in Wine 
can't get to the hardware directly - the kernel prevents it. So there 
still has to be a Linux driver in the linux kernel for wine to talk 
to.

A better tactic is ndis wrappers - effectively you "steal" a windows 
driver and put a wrapper around it that linux can talk to through a 
standard interface. The windriver then talks to the hardware.

At least that's the theory. Practice is something else

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Alan McKinnon
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