Re: wine for drivers?

On Mon, 15 May 2006 15:55:05 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:

On 2006-05-15, J <nospamplease> wrote:

Can you use some kind of emulator to use a windows driver in
linux?

Yes. For some windows device drivers (for network cards).

Do you reverse engineer windows drivers to discover
specifications or controls?

Sometimes.

I have an exotic isa card (motu midi timepiece II) I'd like to
use.

http://www.winehq.com/site/docs/wine-faq/index suggests: "No, STFW!".

why not a modprobe which speaks "windows drivers" and an adapter
module?

man ndiswrapper

Yeah, I ran accross that. As I understand it, ndiswrapper
solves a sort of opposite problem.

Opposite of what? It allows you to use Windows drivers under
Linux. It only handles network cards and not MIDI cards, but I
wouldn't call that the "opposite" of what you asked for.

I would be interested in a windowsish adapter from linux to
diverse windows drivers.

That's what ndiswrapper does. I guess you're saying it's not
diverse enough?

ndiswrapper seems to be a broad adapter for many network card
drivers which all seem to 'speak' an ndis protocol.

NDIS is the kernel-driver API used between the Windows kernel
and drivers for network cards.

Useful, but not for antiquated midi adapters.

Correct. Ndiswrapper does what you want, but only for network
card drivers.

It's not quite true that ndiswrapper only works for network drivers.
People seem to have got other bits of hardware working with it, at least
according to the devices listed at the project pages.

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