John Mahlman IV Posted December 1, 2006 Share Posted December 1, 2006 Hey all, I just switched my hackintosh back to windows xp because I need wireless, i never realized how often I used it. Anyway, I know for a fact that my wireless card works in Linux (mandriva and possibly others), if I find a linux driver, I can recompile it for mac os correct? It's called a "toshiba wireless lan" mini-pci card, it's an agere chipset. If so, How do I do something like that? I go to a friggin tech school, but no mac os users that know around here, all linux and windows. Thanks all, any help is appreciated! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/34676-using-a-linux-driver/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
fireshark Posted December 1, 2006 Share Posted December 1, 2006 no you cant straight across recompile Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/34676-using-a-linux-driver/#findComment-246112 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bikedude880 Posted December 1, 2006 Share Posted December 1, 2006 In order to compile it on OS X, you would basically have to completely re-write the driver. The ones for Linux have an enormous amount of dependencies that would be very difficult to implement. You could try looking for a BSD version of the driver, but there are no gaurantees that if you find it that it will even work. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/34676-using-a-linux-driver/#findComment-246113 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaemonES Posted December 1, 2006 Share Posted December 1, 2006 Forget about Linux and BSD drivers. Some parts of IOKit even much more similar to Windows (such as user/kernel communication). You need to write driver from the scratch or port an existing one. GL. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/34676-using-a-linux-driver/#findComment-246118 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tralla Posted December 25, 2006 Share Posted December 25, 2006 Hey all, I just switched my hackintosh back to windows xp because I need wireless, i never realized how often I used it. Anyway, I know for a fact that my wireless card works in Linux (mandriva and possibly others), if I find a linux driver, I can recompile it for mac os correct? It's called a "toshiba wireless lan" mini-pci card, it's an agere chipset. If so, How do I do something like that? John, Any luck with the driver? I got a Toshiba laptop, everything works fine (even the 1440x900 LCD) with 10.4.6 except for the wireless driver. It's a Toshiba Wireless LAN Mini PCI card as you said. Let me know. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/34676-using-a-linux-driver/#findComment-261295 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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