From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 1 07:59:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA26282 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 07:59:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bright.ny.otec.com (bright.ny.otec.com [209.3.16.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA26274 for ; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 07:59:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@hotjobs.com) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by bright.ny.otec.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA02333; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 10:58:32 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bright@hotjobs.com) X-Authentication-Warning: bright.ny.otec.com: bright owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 10:58:32 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein X-Sender: bright@bright.ny.otec.com To: Eivind Eklund cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RealTek RTL 8129 PCI Fast Ethernet Card In-Reply-To: <19980701132630.24761@follo.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG would you find it in your heart to do a small section on how the filesystems work? i've read the design and implementation book but it's all so confusing. i just can't figure out how writes to the disk are done. and a bit about how mounting works? thanks, Alfred On Wed, 1 Jul 1998, Eivind Eklund wrote: > On Wed, Jul 01, 1998 at 07:48:16AM +0800, Richard Goh wrote: > > Hi, > > Thanks for the info. > > So far so bad, now I have a $2.5k machine sitting pretty on its own and > > cant even change the network card which is on the motherboard. > > Looks like the only option left is to port the linux driver. > > Anyone with some experience on this ? > > Or is there a guide? > > There is a Device Driver Writers Guide in the tutorials. If you have > problems understanding it, feel free to mail me with questions (I'm > trying to do an upgrade of the guide, so that kind of feedback would > be useful :-) > > Eivind. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message