From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 5 10:53:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA28654 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 5 Nov 1997 10:53:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from verdi.nethelp.no (verdi.nethelp.no [195.1.171.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id KAA28646 for ; Wed, 5 Nov 1997 10:53:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sthaug@nethelp.no) From: sthaug@nethelp.no Received: (qmail 20047 invoked by uid 1001); 5 Nov 1997 18:53:26 +0000 (GMT) To: njs3@doc.ic.ac.uk Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Network card manuals In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 5 Nov 1997 17:09:09 +0000" References: X-Mailer: Mew version 1.05+ on Emacs 19.28.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 05 Nov 1997 19:53:26 +0100 Message-ID: <20045.878756006@verdi.nethelp.no> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I'm wondering if anyone knows of any network card manufacturers who > publish freely available detailed manuals on their cards for device driver > programmers. I'm trying to learn device driver programming, and thought > I'd start by examining some of FreeBSD's, but its all greek without some > background docs. I've tried Intel, 3com and SMC's web sites but all I > found were terse datasheets that don't help much. DEC has some very good and detailed manuals available on the net. Check out Chris G Demetriou's list of DEC hardware documentation at ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/dec-docs/index.html which has pointers to the 21040, 21041, 21140 etc manuals. Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no