From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 18 07:51:03 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE9D216A4CE for ; Fri, 18 Feb 2005 07:51:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.192.90]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36BF243D39 for ; Fri, 18 Feb 2005 07:51:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from tedwin2k (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.197.130]) j1I7ojj63495; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 23:50:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 23:50:45 -0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <69003fc45788390b881503539f5bb3dc@shire.net> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1478 Importance: Normal cc: 'Mikhail Teterin' cc: "Robert Kim, EVDO-Coverage, Verizon Agent" cc: List Free Bsd Subject: RE: Verizon's EVDO and FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 07:51:03 -0000 > -----Original Message----- > From: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC [mailto:chad@shire.net] > Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 1:34 PM > To: Ted Mittelstaedt > Cc: 'Mikhail Teterin'; Robert Kim, EVDO-Coverage, Verizon Agent; List > Free Bsd > Subject: Re: Verizon's EVDO and FreeBSD > > > > On Feb 17, 2005, at 2:03 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > > Robert, > > > > Hmm - The Mac source (I assume your talking Mac OS X) > would probably > > be the best to start with. It might be a very easy port to whatever > > version of FreeBSD was used for the version of Mac OS X you wrote the > > driver for. > > Mac OS X is not based on FreeBSD. Whoah there Chad! Please refer to the following website, guy!: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/OSX_Technology _Overview/index.html Note the following statement there: "...Beneath the appealing, easy-to-use interface of Mac OS X is a rock-solid, UNIX-based foundation called Darwin that is engineered for stability, reliability, and performance. Darwin integrates a number of technologies, most importantly Mach 3.0, operating-system services based on FreeBSD 5, --------------------------^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > It has a BSD user layer and > compatibility layer and they DO use the FreeBSD userland for > their own, No, a lot more than that, see Darwin. > but the driver level is MUCH different. > I know that, but that is today, not yesterday. Bob stated the "old open source" driver, I took that to mean a version 1.0 driver released for the first ever version of MacOS X. I didn't know this card and service was a new thing. Ted