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Is this project finished? #7

Open DarkShadow44 opened 3 years ago

DarkShadow44 commented 3 years ago

There has not been a lot of activity in the last ~8 years, is this project considered finished? Or is NDIS6 support still planned?

proski commented 3 years ago

I don't think anything is planned at this point. There is not much interest for ndiswrapper, as the Linux driver support for the recent WiFi hardware got much better.

CTRL-ALT-DEL-92 commented 3 years ago

Dear ndiswrapper Developer,

Could be possible to use this project to enable support for various usb hardware (other than wifi devices) not well supported by linux kernel or at least help wine to detect and use some usb devices? Sorry if the question may seem stupid but I'm not a tech savy just a common user.

Best Regards

proski commented 3 years ago

I don't think Wine can interact with ndiswrapper. ndiswrapper loads a Windows Wi-Fi driver into Linux kernel and provides interface between the driver and the kernel. Wine operates in userspace.

CTRL-ALT-DEL-92 commented 3 years ago

I don't think Wine can interact with ndiswrapper. ndiswrapper loads a Windows Wi-Fi driver into Linux kernel and provides interface between the driver and the kernel. Wine operates in userspace.

Thanks for your feedback. Wine 6.0 is improving its ability to interact with linux libusb to detect and interact with usb devices. Some non serial usb devices (non wifi or internet related devices) are currently not supported by the linux kernel, maybe your project can help the kernel to detect these devices and wine through libusb can do the rest. Take this comment as a sign of appreciation for this project, it would be a waste to let it rot like that I'm sure it can still be very useful for the community. Thanks again for your support.

Best Regards

proski commented 3 years ago

Implementing a USB network driver in userspace is possible, but I don't think the code from ndiswrapper would be of much use.

satmandu commented 2 years ago

Is there any other work on getting NDIS6 support? The BCM4360 driver (broadcom-wl) is very broken and doesn't support many 5Ghz channels, but there is a working Windows 7 driver...

I suppose a way to use macos drivers in linux would also be an option... Is there a sister project that does what ndiswrapper does for macos drivers? 😅

DarkShadow44 commented 2 years ago

Is there any other work on getting NDIS6 support? The BCM4360 driver (broadcom-wl) is very broken and doesn't support many 5Ghz channels, but there is a working Windows 7 driver...

At this point I think it would be easier to fix the existing driver.

Would be interesting to get NDIS6 working, but question is whether it's worth it. Is there still (halfway common) chipsets that are not supported in Linux, at all?

satmandu commented 2 years ago

Mid-2010s Macs use the BCM4360... those are a lot of machines. I guess the question is, which hardware has terrible linux drivers but better windows drivers...