From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 5 17:29:06 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA26030 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 5 Nov 1997 17:29:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from word.smith.net.au (vh1.gsoft.com.au [203.38.152.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA26025 for ; Wed, 5 Nov 1997 17:29:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Received: from word.smith.net.au (localhost.gsoft.com.au [127.0.0.1]) by word.smith.net.au (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA00482; Thu, 6 Nov 1997 11:54:30 +1030 (CST) Message-Id: <199711060124.LAA00482@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: njs3@doc.ic.ac.uk (Niall Smart) cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Network card manuals In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 05 Nov 1997 17:09:09 -0000." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 06 Nov 1997 11:54:30 +1030 From: Mike Smith 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. The datasheet on the NS8390 (natsemi) and related documents should help. www.natsemi.com, developer's section. mike