Q: Linux environment for loading Windows drivers?

[Heiko Nardmann]

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Hi!

Is there a Linux environment available somewhere to load Windows drivers and 
run the hardware this way?

Thanks in advance!

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Heiko Nardmann (Dipl.-Ing. Technische Informatik)
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Linux environment for loading Windows drivers?

[Robert Shearman]

Heiko Nardmann wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Is there a Linux environment available somewhere to load Windows
> drivers and
> run the hardware this way?

This is not a primary goal of Wine, but there are two main projects that do
this that I know of.
1. Captive (NTFS) - http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/
2. NdisWrapper (network) - http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/

If you are willing to develop a solution for another type of driver then I
would recommend taking a look at http://www.reactos.org which implements a
large chunk of the NT kernelspace.

Rob