19 Mar
2008
19 Mar
'08
3:37 p.m.
On 3/19/08, bruce bedouglas@earthlink.net wrote:
hey scott...
are you sure about the installation of windows drivers, not affecting the installation of linux. aren't there a number of cases where in order to install hardware on linux, you 1st need the windows drivers?
might it be possible that the article/advice the poster was following was with regards to obtaining drivers for the sata controller/drive to be used under linux??
Hi there
The only example of anything approaching this that i know of is using ndiswrapper to install the windows driver for a wifi card on a linux box and after 2.6.25 it looks like you will taint the kernel by doing this.
Using windows drivers within linux is an ugly hack at best.
mike