[openbeosnetteam] Re: NVnet driver (nForce network)

Hi Zenja,

[...]
> a group of people got together and tried to reverse
> engineer the nvnet driver and rewrite an open source (GPL) clean room
> implementation.
> 
> <link to Linux patch file>
> http://www.hailfinger.org/carldani/linux/patches/forcedeth/
> 
> The driver is called forcedeth (to avoid trademark issues with 
> nvidia)
> 
> Maybe something we can use to get this driver working under BeOS.  
> Since I'm
> affected (Abit NF7-S nForce2 mobo), I guess I'll give it a shot and 
> see if I
> can port the driver. Wish me luck.

Good luck ;-).

Maybe you can ask Andrew Bachmann that he hands you his driver source 
code and start from there, with the help of forcedeth?

I'll be happy to host more network interface drivers in OBOS CVS...

PS: Try to keep your kernel driver compliant with the ether_driver.h *
API* followed by every BeOS R5 (BONE and net_server based) kernel 
driver, Axel's sis900 included (which is in our OBOS for his kernel 
part).

PS2: don't wait for a working version to commit to CVS! If you don't 
have time/will to finish the driver in the future, at least it'll be 
not totally waste of time...

- Philippe


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