From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 5 15:21:55 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA17617 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 5 Nov 1997 15:21:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id PAA17604 for ; Wed, 5 Nov 1997 15:21:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id AAA13224; Thu, 6 Nov 1997 00:21:14 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.7/8.8.5) id AAA17798; Thu, 6 Nov 1997 00:01:03 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <19971106000102.TU05027@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Thu, 6 Nov 1997 00:01:02 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: njs3@doc.ic.ac.uk (Niall Smart) Subject: Re: Network card manuals References: X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: ; from Niall Smart on Nov 5, 1997 17:09:09 +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Niall Smart wrote: > I'm trying to learn device driver programming, and thought > I'd start by examining some of FreeBSD's, but its all greek without some > background docs. I've tried Intel, 3com and SMC's web sites but all I > found were terse datasheets that don't help much. 3Com's documentation shipping department is better than their chip design department. :-) Alas, their offer to send you programming manuals is well hidden somewhere, you gotta go through to what they call `3Com Facts' or such, some sort of a half-automated fax server. You can order the order fax (:-) on the Web server, but have to fill it in manually, and fax it back. They FedEx the manual then, it took less than a week to get it here in Europe. The manual ain't too bad. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)