From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 26 15:41:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BED7154E8 for ; Mon, 26 Apr 1999 15:41:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA28840; Mon, 26 Apr 1999 15:41:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 15:41:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: "Joseph T. Lee" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: D-Link 528CT, to add to my last mail (fwd) In-Reply-To: <19990423182822.B14514@la.best.com> 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 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 Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message