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[Clay Vincent Schentrup <cvs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Good luck reading obect code pal.  Even if you have an actual .c writings 
drivers, especially for a PCI device (which adds another layer of programming), 
is not easy.  It's fundamentally different from any other kind of programming 
you've probably done.  There is quite a bit you'll want to read before you 
start, and I can honestly say that the PCI ethernet code in the sample-code 
section of BeOS is very little help.  It's poorly documented and almost goes 
out of its way to be obfuscated.  Good luck though.  I'd be in your boat too, 
but then I found out that someone had already written the driver for my SMC net 
card..of course it still doesn't work in BeOS but I'm sure I'll figure out why 
some day.

Clay

>> how hard would it be to port working tulip.o code from linux into the 
>> beos API so that beos might have a working driver for the linksys LNE100TX 
>> card?

>If you know the basics of driver programming it should be easy enough.
> 
>> how would one proceed?

>First read the BeBook chapter on Drivers then download some source for 
>any other PCI ethernet card and check how it was done.

>-Bruno


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