From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 8 13:43:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA25768 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 13:43:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA25748 for ; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 13:43:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA00362; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 13:34:31 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199807082034.NAA00362@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Joel Ray Holveck cc: mike@smith.net.au, fschan@capgemini.com.sg, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NIC drivers In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 08 Jul 1998 11:29:32 CDT." <199807081629.LAA02208@detlev.UUCP> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 08 Jul 1998 13:34:31 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >> Just curious, how do one find the neccesary info to write a driver of > >> say 3c509 fro FreeBSD? > > You mean like, eg. /sys/i386/isa/if_ep.c? (The 3c509 driver.) > > Last I heard, the 509 driver was buggy. (According to LINT, it still > is.) When I last tried it about eight months ago, it was still buggy. > Cursory tests now (I've got one in this box, on the same LAN as an > NE2000) indicate that it may still be broken. Yes; the driver is not spectacular, and neither is the card. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message