Talk:NdisWrapper

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Contributers might consider to clarify:

• whether ndiswrapper allows one to use native Windows drivers, or something else?

• something about the architecture, e.g., what Windows files are typically present, and how they are wrapped.

[edit] Installation from source

I'd just like to say that contrary to what is stated in the article, I found ndiswrapper very easy to install from source. There is a makefile in the source tarball which automated the build and installation. Once i'd done that, it was simply a case of reading the INSTALL and README files and Installing my wi-fi card's Windows driver from the CD-rom. I use Suse Linux 10.1 and the ndiswrapper RPM package which comes as part of the distro didnt work (doh!...) Only downloading the source enabled me to get the card running at all.82.41.244.139 20:39, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

Agreed – installation from source is not as difficult as the article claims, when I first installed it a couple years ago (it was either 0.3 or 0.8 if I recall correctly, don't remember which) it was as simple as make && make install. That was before I was even building custom kernels or anything. Although then again, these days I'm building an entire Linux distro – as if I didn't blab about it enough... – and I've got an automated build script to do all the work for me ;-)

multima 18:52, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

does anybody know if using ndiswrapper uses a lot of resources - cpu, mem? security?