Ubuntu Dial up settings
Alan McKinnon
alan at linuxholdings.co.za
Wed May 10 19:53:44 UTC 2006
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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