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To: Scott Mitchell <scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk>
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At 04:26 PM 3/11/99 +0000, Scott Mitchell wrote:

>It's not too hideous, if you don't mind getting your hands dirty on kernel
>code.

Probably wouldn't mind that at all, it's all in c isn't it?

I'm not terribly fond of assembler, I hear it makes you go impotent!

>If you've got working code for Linux or whatever, then a 'port' amounts to
>munging that into the BSD driver framework, which is a little different.

<sarcasim>
No kidding??? 
</sarcasim>

I figured that much, I was hoping you might be able to share with me what
some of those differences are.

>The ed driver is a really good template -- I've basically ended up ripping
>out the h/w specific parts of that and replacing them with the Xircom
>stuff.  For a 10/100 card you'll also have to deal with media
>autoselection; the xl, fxp and tl (?) drivers are pretty good sources for
>that.

I'll look into that stuff. I guess I can get the Linux code on the
distribution CD.

>There you go.  Easy huh?

Couldn't say until I look at it!<G>

Alan DuBoff - Conductor
Software Orchestration, Inc.
aland@SoftOrchestra.com


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