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[–] CameronDev 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Not as stupid as you would think, there is/was a project to use Windows inf drivers on linux. Havent need to use it in many many years though.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NDISwrapper

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Huh, interesting I thought inf file is just an instruction for windows what to look for when installing driver manually and it's kernel level so there's no way it's compatible with Linux kernel, I have to look at this NDISwrapper later Edit: looks like it's only work with network related devices so that's wouldn't do with what I'm planning to do

[–] CameronDev 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, it was predominantly wifi drivers. I have no idea how it worked, it was all magic to me at the time. What device are you trying to get working?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Modded gpu driver