NDISwrapper

NDISwrapper
NDISwrapper
	ndiswrapper command line running in a terminal window
Developer(s)	Jan Kiszka, Giridhar Pemmasani, Pontus Fuchs
Stable release	1.63 / May 3, 2020
Operating system	Linux on IA-32 and x86-64 architectures only
Type	Driver wrapper
License	GNU GPL
Website	The NDISwrapper wiki, NDISwrapper Download Area

NDISwrapper is a free software driver wrapper that enables the use of Windows XP network device drivers (for devices such as PCI cards, USB modems, and routers) on Linux operating systems. NDISwrapper works by implementing the Windows kernel and NDIS APIs and dynamically linking Windows network drivers to this implementation. As a result, it only works on systems based on the instruction set architectures supported by Windows, namely IA-32 and x86-64.

Native drivers for some network adapters are not available on Linux as some manufacturers maintain proprietary interfaces and do not write cross-platform drivers. NDISwrapper allows the use of Windows drivers, which are available for virtually all modern PC network adapters.