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From: lyndon@orthanc.com (Lyndon Nerenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: WaveLan driver for FreeBSD?
Date: 7 Feb 1996 10:19:24 -0800
Organization: Orthanc Systems
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[ Sent as a followup due to an unreplyable From: header in the
original posting ]
Kevin Brown <kbrown> writes:
^^^^^^
[ Fix your From: address! ]
>If there is no current driver, how hard would it be for someone with no device
>driver experience to port the Linux driver to BSD? (impossible?) I looked at
>the Linux code and it's 2300 lines of unpleasantness.
I did a search for a driver a couple of months ago and came up with a blank.
The WaveLAN driver is basically an Ethernet driver with some serial port
like bits thrown in (it uses an RTS/CTS like model to handle the CSMA
part). Due to the differences between Linux and BSD you wouldn't want to
try a direct port of the driver, however the Linux driver code combined
with the NCR hardware/programming documentation would give you more than
enough info to do the port. Doing it as a "first time" driver would be
a bit of a challenge, especially if you're not familiar with 4.4BSD
kernel internals.
If you get stuck I would be willing to write you a driver in exchange for
a pair of 900MHz cards. (Only half joking - I could really use a pair
of these :-)
--lyndon
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