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From: Dave Lukes <davel@anvil.com>
Subject: Re: [9fans] ndis-ulator for plan 9
Date: Thu,  1 Sep 2005 08:31:49 +0100
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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Ron,
I'm going to regret this, but I'm gonna trust that you're right and go 
take a look at it
(unless someone else steps up to the plate/wicket).

I'm not going to even announce it, let alone discuss it,
I'm going to take a look at how much work is involved and either start 
doing it or not.

If I even mention I'm doing it, there will be a flood of "windoze 
sukz", "is it GPLed?"
and "driver X won't work so it ain't worth doing" messages to distract 
me.

Do you happen to know anything about the beast to get me started?

Cheers,
     Dave.


On 1 Sep 2005, at 04:59, Ronald G Minnich wrote:

> McLone wrote:
>
>> But not only this - i am unable to write drivers for some hardware
>> because of closed specifications (nVidia, various WiFi, Adaptecs etc).
>
> speaking of this:
>
> if anybody wanted to port the bsd ndis-ulator to plan 9, or use it as 
> a model for a Plan 9 driver, it would be a HUGE service, and would get 
> us tons of drivers.
>
> ron