On 3/19/08, bruce <bedouglas at 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