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ndiswrapper

Some vendors do not release specifications of the hardware or provide a linux driver for their wireless network cards. This project implements Windows kernel API and NDIS (Network Driver Interface Specification) API within Linux kernel. A Windows driver for wireless network card is then linked to this implementation so that the driver runs natively, as though it is in Windows, without binary emulation. The driver works quite well with many miniPCI (builtin), PCI, PCMCIA (Cardbus only) and USB cards. Although ndiswrapper is intended for wireless network cards, other devices are known to work: e.g., USB to serial port device, ethernet card, home phone network device etc. See Wiki entry List for devices known to work.

Last updated 18 Nov, 2005


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Leadership
  • Pontus Fuchs - Maintainer
  • Giridhar Pemmasani - Maintainer

Versions

1.5

1.5 stable released 2005-10-30

User Community and Support

User documentation and Installation at http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php

General Resources
Announcement Resources
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  • Forum
  • irc://irc.freenode.net/#ndiswrapper

Development

Developer Resources
  • VCS Checkout Command: :pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/ndiswrapper
  • Forum
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Please send comments on these web pages to bug-directory@fsf.org, send other questions to info@fsf.org.

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