From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 28 22:46:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from implode.root.com (root.com [209.102.106.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0CC414F4B for ; Wed, 28 Jul 1999 22:46:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@implode.root.com) Received: from implode.root.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by implode.root.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA04922; Wed, 28 Jul 1999 22:42:43 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199907290542.WAA04922@implode.root.com> To: "Tim Sammut" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: recognizing different ne2000 derivatives In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 28 Jul 1999 09:43:48 PDT." From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 22:42:43 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >I have the eventual goal of coding a network driver, just as a learning >exercise, and have the following question. > >Does the following code snippet from if_ed.c mean that we cannot mix ne2000 >derivatives, if they each happen to require a different ed_probe_*() to be >recognized? No, the probe happens independantly with each interface in the machine and is not affected by any other interfaces. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message