Did anybody ever try NdisWrapper?

[manuroc]

Obivously there are many wireless devices having trouble running on Hackintosh, notably the Intel 3945ABG.

 

In the linux world, we use NdisWrapper to make Windows compatible wireless drivers working on Unix systems. For example, all I need to do is use the GUI frontend of NdisWrapper in Ubuntu to import my 3945ABG .INF file from my Windows drive, and wireless works fine!

 

Since OSX is Unix-based, I was wondering if it would work there too, if it already hasn't been tried of course.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NdisWrapper

 

http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/joomla/

[parm289]

I was also wondering if I could use ndiswraper on osx86 leopard to get my wusb54g v2 working. I used it on linux to import the windows drivers, and was wondering if it was possible on mac as well.

[BigPimpin]

Unlikely to work. OSX is based on BSD, not Linux. The 2 both have Unix roots but their networking guts are not really compatible.

[Highlander82]

ndiswrapper works based on the whole concept of a loadable kernel module (LKM) (which sounds sorta like a kernel extension) and requires several tools like modprobe, modpost, depmod, etc. to compile/build it from source, as well as the linux kernel makefiles. I'm pretty sure it also requires the procfs system as well, so...basically it would require a major code rewrite to work on a Mac as Linux as all these things are Linux-specific.