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From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
To: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Writing Device drivers for 2.2.X etc'
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> 
> Ok, I'll give that a go... My /usr/share/examples/drivers directory is kinda
> empty though - which distribution is the script in?

get it from the website..
www.freebsd.org->support->CVS_Repository->src->share->examples->drivers

does everything for you except drive your card.
(ignore the comment about conf.c, it's no longer needed)
> 
> One final question - If I write this under 2.2.2 - is it going to compile on
> 2.2.5 without any trouble?
yes and probably 3.0 as well

> 
> 
> Thanks for your time,
> 
> 
> Karl
>