From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Oct 5 18:40:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E418C37B401 for ; Sat, 5 Oct 2002 18:40:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sccrmhc02.attbi.com (sccrmhc02.attbi.com [204.127.202.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A6B943E42 for ; Sat, 5 Oct 2002 18:40:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from InterJet.elischer.org ([12.232.206.8]) by sccrmhc02.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20021006014019.LWIZ27763.sccrmhc02.attbi.com@InterJet.elischer.org>; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 01:40:19 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.elischer.org [127.0.0.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAA25505; Sat, 5 Oct 2002 18:27:21 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2002 18:27:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: Neal Nelson Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Writing a PCI ADSL Driver In-Reply-To: <20021006011546.GA322@thinkpad> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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