[openbeos] Re: Writing Drivers
- From: "Matt Verran" <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2002 19:24:13 BST (+0100)
Guys,
On the topic of this (or maybe this is off topic :) ), maybe we could
get a team of none programmers such as myself to round up source codes/
specs for hardware?
Just a thought...
Matt
> Now that Mr. Reid is off in the bliss of MacOSX or Linux
> or...well
> whatever bigger and better thing he's off to, Phillipe has stated
> that he will
> be taking some time to analyze and document the most-BSD code base
> that David
> had been working on. Until such time as this has transpired, I've
> decided I'd
> like to invest some time working on a driver for my SMC 1244TX
> network card.
> It was 10$ at CompUSA, and I believe quite a lot of people probably
> have them,
> so it would be a good one to work on. Plus, SMC's site has the
> source code to
> their drivers for most systems, such as FreeBSD..very helpful,
> although the
> specs would be nice too.
> Anyway, in order to test the ability to communicate with the
> card, and try
> to send and receive data at various registers, it would be nice
> to..ya know..be
> able to boot up with it in my computer. Only there's this problem
> that when I
> boot up with it in my machine, alongside my DEC/tulip, I freeze on
> boot. I'm
> assuming this is happening because a driver is publishing in such a
> way that it
> appears my card is compatible with it. If I boot up with the SMC
> card in my
> machine alone, it won't freeze. Is there a way that I can boot with
> just the
> SMC card in, and see what driver is "trying" to work, so that I
> can...delete/
> disable it? Any way around this problem would be nice.
>
> Cheers,
> Clay
>
>
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