loading windows drivers

[nihil]

maybe i've gotten too used to linux where this would have taken 4 seconds

To steal someone else's intellectual property and their livelihood?

This is a commercial product with a free, open source, variant. This version is limited for a reason............... it is called "marketing"........... basically they give you a truncated version so that you can try it and (hopefully) buy the full version.

Please read what is said on the link I posted earlier, and this will corroborate what I am saying.

Do remember that AO does not support the theft of intellectual property, reverse engineering, or any other illegal acts.

Thank you

[cfalcon]

i'm not into stealing ip. all i wanted to do is take their driver, which was provided freely, and use it in a specific way. now, apparently, windows has some limitations as far as manually loading up a driver/dll easily. it seems that i would need to write some actual code to do this, but the developers at winpcap seem to already have written it and are charging for that particular functionality. I understand that, its one of the only ways besides advertising and donations to get some income from an OSS project.

my question from the beginning was really more about how how to load any windows driver/dll manually and use it, like i'm able to on a unix/linux platform with kernel modules, because it may be useful in situations just like this.

[cfalcon]

forget it. see ya round nihil.

[nihil]

cfalcon,

No offence mate; but the little boogers do this all the time?

Yes, it can be done, but only if you pay Billy Windoze for the insider knowledge.

Anything else is illegal