Emulate legacy printer drivers for CUPS with QEMU

Re:Emulate legacy printer drivers for CUPS with QEMU by dehrmann on Friday May 29, 2020 @12:39PM (#23352173)

Reminds me of ndiswrapper. Linux doesn't support your network card? Use the Windows drivers! The time I used it, even with the adapter layer, it was more stable than the native Linux drivers.

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Re:Emulate legacy printer drivers for CUPS with QEMU by cbhl on Friday May 29, 2020 @01:34PM (#23352939)

And ndiswrapper ran binary drivers. Literally ran the machine code and provided hooks to make the driver work.

Of course, that meant you couldn't plug a Windows-only USB Wifi stick into an ARM machine (say, a Raspberry Pi 1) and use ndiswrapper. Luckily, Broadcom added Wi-Fi to the newer Pis...

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Re:Emulate legacy printer drivers for CUPS with QEMU by voltagex_ on Saturday May 30, 2020 @08:33AM (#23360718)

I haven't run into a USB wifi stick that I couldn't find a driver for, for a while. Now the problem is which of the 11 Github forks to trust.

Are there any other manufacturers still bothering with USB wifi devices other than Realtek and Mediatek?

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Re:Emulate legacy printer drivers for CUPS with QEMU by app4soft on Saturday May 30, 2020 @12:51AM (#23358568)

> Linux doesn't support your network card? Use the Windows drivers!

What about GPU drivers? Should I try that way to run AMD Catalyst Windows driver instead of Mesa under Linux for ATI Radeon Xpress 1250?

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