Re: [Ndiswrapper-general] Upcomming Features?

[Milan <em...@gm...>]

On Ne, 2005-12-25 at 13:01 -0800, er...@er... wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'd like to turn my Home made linux server into an access point. I've been looking at NdisWrapper, since the card I'd like to use has no linux drivers (WMP54GX), but there are some challenges due to features abscent from NdisWrapper:
> 
> 
> 1) Full 64-bit support: 32-Bit Windows drivers wont work on Linux 64-bit

  32bit drivers can not work within 64bit kernel - even windows doesn't
allow to use 32bit drivers together with 64bit kernel. It involves too
many ugly hacks to do in kernel, which aren't worth it... .

  But I think that hw vendors will provide (in some time) 64bit drivers
- finally, they want their hardware to be used:-). And 64bit NDIS
drivers work with 64bit linux at glance (my personal experience).

> 
> 2) Master for Master mode, so my card can become the access point.

  This is problem of the NDIS specification. Standardized operation
modes are just ad-hoc and managed, so these modes can ndiswrapper
support generally. In addition, there are often private extensions to
the drivers, so they might be capable (with undocumented interface) to
work in master mode.

  You can try to play with options in configuration file
(/etc/ndiswrapper/your_card/PCIID.conf), if should contain some things
which NDIS driver use to configure itself; maybe even enabling master
mode. 

> 
> 
> Are there any plans to implement these features in the near future?

  I'm not ndiswrapper developer, so things I wrote are just my opinion.
There is no warrany:-). 

> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Erasmo Acosta

	Milan Plzik