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From: hpeyerl@sidney.novatel.ca (Herb Peyerl)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Will BSDI driver work with {Net,Free}BSD?
Date: 11 Dec 1994 21:33:49 GMT
Organization: NovAtel Communications Ltd.
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Nate Williams (nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu) wrote:
: In article <3cacf5$jkp@giant.dswi.com>, Pete Kruckenberg <pete@dswi.com> wrote:
: >I've been talking with a company who makes a synchronous board that
: >has a driver for BSDI (the commercial BSD/OS)? How hard is it to port
: >a network driver from BSDI to NetBSD or FreeBSD?
: Depends on how intricate it gets with the kernel. Drivers have been
: ported from Linux -> BSD, and the kernels are vastly different.
If it's the card I'm thinking of "Riscom/N2" then the source comes with
the card.
The issue however is the vastly huge difference in PPP implementations
from my small amount of experience.
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