[haiku] Re: Proposal to Haiku Developer
- From: Stefano Ceccherini <stefano.ceccherini@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 18:44:08 +0200
2010/4/7 Dane Scott - TuneTracker Systems <tunetracker@xxxxxx>:
> This starts out talking about BeOS, but stay with me...
>
> As I mentioned recently, I need a motherboard that can be used with TT
> systems for awhile until we can move to Haiku...and I've found a motherboard
> that works nicely with BeOS, and I can get lots of them, new!
>
> ASUS MB P5KPL IPC CORE 2 QUAD G31 FSB1333 LGA775 DD
>
> The only problem is with networking. The built-in Ethernet is a Realtek
> RTL8102E chip BeOS doesn't know what to do with. Alternatively, when we try
> the PCI network cards we usually use, they work oddly. The Realtek 8169,
> for example, can be made to work, however after a reboot, the card is no
> longer found by BeOS and you get the "a network device failed to initialize"
> error.
>
> I REALLY want to use this board, because it's the one board I've found that
> has all the other things I need, and it's available in good quantity, brand
> new. So I'm proposing that a programmer work with me to either resolve the
> problem of the disappearing network card, or to develop a driver for the
> Realtek chipset. Obviously I'd pay them for their work, but I want to do
> more than that.
>
> If it turns out we can make a workable new network driver for the
> motherboard's chipset (or port one from Linux?), I'd make certain we also do
> a Haiku version of it, and I will donate it to the Haiku project.
There is a working Haiku driver for both cards, in our tree.
I guess it could also be compiled for BeOS.
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