From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu May 10 3:34:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from sol.serv.u-szeged.hu (sol.serv.u-szeged.hu [160.114.51.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFA3C37B423 for ; Thu, 10 May 2001 03:34:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sziszi@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu) Received: from petra.hos.u-szeged.hu by sol.serv.u-szeged.hu (8.9.3+Sun/SMI-SVR4) id MAA08172; Thu, 10 May 2001 12:34:39 +0200 (MEST) Received: from sziszi by petra.hos.u-szeged.hu with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 14xnmJ-0007bG-00 for ; Thu, 10 May 2001 12:34:39 +0200 Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 12:34:38 +0200 From: Szilveszter Adam To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD driver for c't flasher ? Message-ID: <20010510123438.A24377@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu> Mail-Followup-To: Szilveszter Adam , freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello everybody, The german computer magazine c't has initiated a project called "c't flasher" which is actually DIY flash and EEPROM writer and software for DOS way back in 1997. This ISA card must be placed into a working computer and then it can read and write flash and EEPROM chips of eg PCs, but also ISDN PABXs. The program now supports some 50 chip variants. But porting it to other OSs is not feasible without a major rewrite because it needs direct hw access. (the original program is written in Pascal) Now a project was started on SourceForge to write Linux software for this device (whose details available from c't) and there is already some result. The software is realised as a Linux kernel module at present and controls the device through Linux devices in /dev. I think given someone with device driver experience it wouldn't be too hard to do something similar for FreeBSD maybe? The existing code (which is in C with inline assembler) could even serve as a basis where applicable, because it is under the BSD license. The Linux driver project was initiated by Dirk Pfau. 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------=_NextPart_84815C5ABAF209EF376268C8-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat May 12 19:32: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from tick.tcsn.net (tick.tcsn.net [206.190.91.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06ACF37B424 for ; Sat, 12 May 2001 19:32:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from n6rej@tcsn.net) Received: from disappointment (la-ppp2-085.tcsn.net [63.202.153.85]) by tick.tcsn.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id TAA25100 for ; Sat, 12 May 2001 19:32:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from n6rej@tcsn.net) Message-ID: <002b01c0db54$e0febaa0$5599ca3f@disappointment> From: "N6REJ" To: Subject: I'm leaving Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 19:31:55 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Due to the overwhelming lack of assitance I have gotten in the freebsd-newbies, questions, and here, I am leaving FBSD. I tried several times to get assitance for my install and each time was met with non-responses. There is one person though that I will give special mention to and that is susy. She and I conversed on several occasions. She was'nt able to solve my most necessary problem, but she was able to help me understand a few things and I was able to aid her. Thanks susie. There was another though I don't recall his name that mentioned to try ftp5 which I did. But those two folks out of all of you, were the only 2 who bothered to take any time to help someone brand new to BSD along. If you EVER hope to make FBSD the leading Unice, I suggest you learn how to prevent this in the future. As a person who has spent 25 yrs in this biz I'm not easily swayed away from my endeavors, but I refuse to pound my head against a brick wall. Good luck to you all Troy n6rej@tcsn.net "I do not understand what I do, for what I want to do I do not do but what I hate I do" Rom 7:15 NIV To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat May 12 21:27:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9B3A37B43E; Sat, 12 May 2001 21:27:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 43B9A6ACBE; Sun, 13 May 2001 13:57:29 +0930 (CST) Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 13:57:29 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: N6REJ Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, newbies@FreeBSD.org, FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: I'm leaving Message-ID: <20010513135729.B97162@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <002b01c0db54$e0febaa0$5599ca3f@disappointment> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <002b01c0db54$e0febaa0$5599ca3f@disappointment>; from n6rej@tcsn.net on Sat, May 12, 2001 at 07:31:55PM -0700 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [copying -questions and -newbies] On Saturday, 12 May 2001 at 19:31:55 -0700, N6REJ wrote: > Due to the overwhelming lack of assitance I have gotten in the > freebsd-newbies, questions, and here, I am leaving FBSD. I tried several > times to get assitance for my install and each time was met with > non-responses. > There is one person though that I will give special mention to and that is > susy. She and I conversed on several occasions. She was'nt able to solve > my most necessary problem, but she was able to help me understand a few > things and I was able to aid her. Thanks susie. > There was another though I don't recall his name that mentioned to try ftp5 > which I did. But those two folks out of all of you, were the only 2 who > bothered to take any time to help someone brand new to BSD along. If you > EVER hope to make FBSD the leading Unice, I suggest you learn how to prevent > this in the future. As a person who has spent 25 yrs in this biz I'm not > easily swayed away from my endeavors, but I refuse to pound my head against > a brick wall. Well, we're sorry you're dissatisfied, but I suspect you're misunderstanding a few basic facts: 1. The lists are run by volunteers. Nobody's obliged to answer any question. As I say at http://echunga.lemis.com/references.html, it's up to you to formulate mail messages that people will want to answer. I personally peruse every message that goes through FreeBSD-questions. I answer the ones that: a. Are well prepared. b. Are easy to read. c. I know how to answer. I can't recall seeing any message from you, which means that maybe they didn't conform to (a) or (b). But there's another possibility: 2. There's only one mailing list which you should use for asking questions of the nature you're describing, and that's FreeBSD-questions. Given that you sent this message to -advocacy, where it is only marginally relevant, I suspect that you might have sent your questions to -newbies or -advocacy, both of which don't have this kind of question on their charter. If you send this kind of question to them, the correct response is to ignore them, though from time to time people will reply and point you to -questions. 3. Ultimately, any problem you have is your own personal property. Don't blame other people for it. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message