Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2002 18:27:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Neal Nelson <neal@nelson.name> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Writing a PCI ADSL Driver Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0210051826380.22932-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <20021006011546.GA322@thinkpad>
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Make sure you have a Netgraph interace on the top of it then you can bolt on the protocols as you need them. On Sun, 6 Oct 2002, Neal Nelson wrote: > Hi there. > > I'm thinking of writing a device driver for a Traverse Pulsar PCI ADSL > card and I was looking for some ideas before I committed myself. I've been > offered hardware and support by the makers (http://www.traverse.com.au/) > but I want to make sure that I can actually do the job before accepting. > > I was wondering what kind of device driver I would need to create. I use > ADSL at home but I only know how to use it, I don't know how it really > works. Would I be able to create a character device and just pretend it > was a modem or would I need to create a network device so that it can talk > PPPoE over it? My main concern is how to get ppp to talk to the device. > > Hopefully I'll be able to get hold of the Linux driver soon and see how > that does things but I want to be very careful about the licensing issues, > so that I can make the driver available under the normal BSD license. I'll > have to see what the makers say about that first though. > > Any advice would be gratefully accepted. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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