Date: Sat, 28 Mar 1998 08:40:55 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Jon Rust <jon@vcnet.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Request hardware support? Message-ID: <19980328084055.20754@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <v03102820b13e1188fa65@[205.228.248.22]>; from Jon Rust on Tue, Mar 24, 1998 at 05:45:21PM -0800 References: <v03102820b13e1188fa65@[205.228.248.22]>
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On Tue, 24 March 1998 at 17:45:21 -0800, Jon Rust wrote: > What's the propper process for requesting support for a particular piece of > hardware? For example, I have an Intel Etherexpress Pro 10/100 PC Card > (combo 56k modem/ethernet card for laptops). It is not (yet?) supported by > FreeBSD. Who/what should I contact/do to request a driver? There are two basic ways that support for a specific device gets added to FreeBSD: 1. You do it yourself. 2. You pay somebody else to do it for you. Both of these alternatives aren't as bad as they look. Lots of FreeBSD users have the ability and the interest to add device support, and lots of companies are prepared to pay for having support for their favourite devices added to what is otherwise an ideal operating system. The advantage is, of course, that others profit from it. In your case, I'd guess that you lose out on both points. On the other hand, I thought we already had support for this board, though I've heard there are a whole lot of different boards. Certainly the LINT config file has: # ie: AT&T StarLAN 10 and EN100; 3Com 3C507; unknown NI5210; Intel EtherExpress device ie0 at isa? port 0x300 net irq 5 iomem 0xd0000 vector ieintr device ie1 at isa? port 0x360 net irq 7 iomem 0xd0000 vector ieintr Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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