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Date:      Mon, 26 Apr 1999 15:41:23 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        "Joseph T. Lee" <nugundam@la.best.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: D-Link 528CT, to add to my last mail (fwd)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.03.9904261540370.6951-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <19990423182822.B14514@la.best.com>

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On Fri, 23 Apr 1999, Joseph T. Lee wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 22, 1999 at 01:15:25AM -0700, Mark Bermal wrote:
> > hello agin!
> > 	I just thought i'd mention that on the D-Link website there are
> > drivers for both SCO 4.X and 5.X and linux kernel 1.2, any chance of
> > usesing these drivers? I really want this Dlinik 528CT to work.
> 
> This brings up a question: when vendors start providing source for their
> Linux drivers, can't FreeBSD take advantage of it?

If you port it.  Linux and FreeBSD have radically different device
architectures.  It isn't easy.

> The Netgear 310TX cards include Linux source for their customized driver
> for the standard tulip driver.

It's a Digital or PNIC chip depending on the rev, and we have drivers for
both. So?

Doug White                               
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