Re: [LUG] Pinnacle DC10+ in Linux

[Mark Evans <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Julian Hall wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Those with long memories may remember I had all kinds of grief
> previously with this card.  Basically Pinnacle have changed the chip
> onboard from the old and *standard* BT8x series to a new chip called
> Bendino.  They won't give out information to developers so anyone with
> one of these horrible cards cannot use it in Linux (I know I've been
> trying long enough).

It's annoying when manufactures do this. Sometimes without even
bothering to change the model number.

> I had a thought this morning I would like to run by you guys and gals
> for feasibility:
>
> Ndiswrapper works as we know by taking the existing Windows driver and
> converting the information it provides from the Wifi hardware into a
> format that Linux can use.  Simply put (and I know it is anything *but*
> a simple proposition!) *in theory* is there anything *technically* to
> stop a developer using the Windows XP driver for the new Pinnacle cards
> in an "ndiswrapper-like" environment?

NDIS has been around for a long time (IIRC it predates Windows), thus is
fairly standard. I doubt that Windows handing of frame capture devices
is anything like as standardised.

If reactOS supports the driver then there might be some possibility of
creating an interfacing layer.

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