Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 21:22:36 -0800 From: Alan DuBoff <aland@SoftOrchestra.com> To: Victor Salaman <salaman@teknos.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.org Subject: RE: compatibility list Message-ID: <3.0.32.19990310212233.02011ea0@blueneptune.com>
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At 04:40 PM 3/10/99 -0400, Victor Salaman wrote: >In fact, I have ported my own driver from Linux drivers >from David Hinds distribution for one of my cards At the risk of showing my ignorance I would like to ask what is involved in doing that? I have a card that has a driver supported on Linux, the 3Com 3c574-TX, it's a 10/100 PCMCIA Fast Ethernet card, but it is kinda unique in that it is 16 bit. There is also a 3c574-TX which is a 32 bit CardBus, however, many laptop owners may be familiar with the 32 bit problems associated with mixing 32/16 bit cards. If you aren't, the 16 bit cards are often not recognized upon reboot, it's a known problem as many IHVs handle 32 bitness differently. I actually bought a 589D from a friend a couple weeks ago for $50 (seemed like a good deal to me, seeing as they are discontinued now!;-) as they are supported on every single OS I would want to run on my laptop. I might be willing to port the 3c574 driver over to FreeBSD if I knew what all was involved. But without knowing what is involved I don't know that I can do it, and as one other gent pointed out, I need to feed and provide for my family, and am limited on amount of time I have available. As him, I whore myself out to people that *WILL* pay me to write software for them, and I'm not about to quit doing that just yet...However, I might be willing to invest some time to provide a port of a driver for the above card, I don't know yet. Surely if I get messages like the ones that were sent over the past couple days, I would probably not consider investing ANY time in it. I was glad to see that Jordan seemed to catch a small chubby in his reply to Scott Mitchell, and thats a good sign. However, I would like to warn you Jordan, you seem to play with guns in your messages, be careful, for you might accidentally shoot your chubby off one day (you've probably shot it off many times over though...;-) Alan DuBoff - Conductor Software Orchestration, Inc. aland@SoftOrchestra.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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