Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main

["Raul Miller" <moth.debian@gmail.com>]

On 3/29/06, Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> wrote:
> > But what what distinguishes ndiswrapper from anything else in
> > contrib?
>
>         Like gcc, it is ready for tyhe user to provide input for it to
>  process. Like gcc, it needs input to produce output (wrapped loadable
>  kernel module), but does not _depend_ on the input, any more than gcc
>  does.

Here's an example of the user providing input for gcc:

$ cat >example.c <<END
#include <stdio.h>
main() {
	printf("%g\n", 3.14159*7*7);
}
END
$ gcc example.c -o example; ./example
153.938

I don't know how to do something like this with ndiswrapper.

Since I'm ignorant, could you provide an example?

> >> If ndiswrapper is not in my universe, I may never get around
> >> to writing fee windows drivers that could also be used on Linux :)
> >
> > I don't understand this one.
> >
> > Why wouldn't "Contrib" be in your universe?
>
>         It is not in Debian.

I don't understand why that means it's not in your universe.

--
Raul