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Re: Using MacOSX drivers from Linux



Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr> writes:

> On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 02:30:32PM +0100, Jérôme Marant wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Noone seems to hope that Airport Extreme hardware will be
>> usable from Linux someday.
>
> Hehe, well, there is at least two projects going one, the reverse
> engineering one, and the one i am thinking about which would include
> a hardware solution.

Reverse engineering is one possible idea although less generic
than wrapping.

>> I'd like to know if it would be technically possible to use
>> MacOSX drivers from Linux, like it is done with Ndis-wrapper
>> on X86 hardware. After all, MacOSX is based on Darwin which
>> is a kind of *nix flavour and drivers on both systems might
>> have similarities.
>
> Yep. But nobody tried to go this way yet, i am not entirely sure of why
> though. I think it was mentioned in previous threads about this subject
> though.

I hardly followed the thread. Sorry.

-- 
Jérôme Marant

http://marant.org



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