From: agulbra@nvg.unit.no (Arnt Gulbrandsen) Subject: Re: Packet Drivers (CRYNWR) porting to linux Date: 30 Jun 1993 02:49:18 GMT
In article <1993Jun28.141339.4236@foobar.hanse.de> root@foobar.hanse.de (Jens Stark) writes:
>This will possibly get me flamed - but...
Not at all.
>Could anybody explain why it is not possible to port packet drivers
>to linux ? IMHO, most of the driver source code belongs to the
>net guru R. Nelson of Crynwr, will he allow porting attempts ?
It is possible, and I wouldn't describe Russ as opposed to the idea. Not
at all. It's not trivial, but certainly possible.
>This could speed up the availability of network card drivers in
>insane speed...
No. Someone needs to _do_ it, and that someone needs both a card of make
X and some expertise. Lack of such people seems to be the problem. If you
have an unsupported ethernet card and think you can do it, get the skeleton
driver for Linux, the relevant Crynwr driver for DOS and the documentation
for the card, and _do_ it. If it's not an ethernet card you have, it's a
bit worse, I don't know how bad.
-- Arnt Gulbrandsen agulbra@nvg.unit.no