From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 14 19:58:29 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA17450 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 14 Aug 1996 19:58:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from parkplace.cet.co.jp (parkplace.cet.co.jp [202.32.64.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA17442 for ; Wed, 14 Aug 1996 19:58:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (michaelh@localhost) by parkplace.cet.co.jp (8.7.5/CET-v2.1) with SMTP id CAA13881; Thu, 15 Aug 1996 02:58:03 GMT Date: Thu, 15 Aug 1996 11:58:03 +0900 (JST) From: Michael Hancock Reply-To: Michael Hancock To: Jan Knepper <106030.3360@compuserve.com> cc: "[FreeBSD Hackers]" Subject: Re: HP 100VG support In-Reply-To: <199608142156_MC1-877-70C9@compuserve.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 14 Aug 1996, Jan Knepper wrote: > I was able to get hold of a J2585 card and was thinking of putting in the > effort to port the freely available CRYNWR packet driver to FreeBSD as > there seemed to some degree of interest for this card on the list. [snip] > So, I am certainly interrested in building a driver for a J2585A or HP 100 > VG. The thing is that I will need a few pointers to get started. I was > hoping to get these from Koshy, but I have not heard from him yet. I might > as well have lost some e-mail. > > Anyone that know about writing ethernet drivers that could give me a hit to > get started? I haven't written an ethernet driver, but if were to do one I'd start with a driver such as if_ep.c and if_vx.c for an example and then track down the CRYNWR HP 100VG driver to figure out what it does. There is support for HP Lan+ in if_ed.c and this might also help. I'm assuming specs for the card are not easy to obtain. Regards, Mike