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- From: richb@jti.com (Richard Braun)
- Subject: Re: 3c501 driver
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 02:30:17 GMT
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- "Brian E. Gallew" <geek+@CMU.EDU> writes:
- >I have *suddenly* come into desperate need for a 3C501 Ethernet
- >driver. I also kinda need it in the near future. I have someone who
- >needs a print server and understand that linux can do it.
- >Unfortuantely, *every* Ethernet card in the department is a 3C501
- >(unless an Etherlink card is a 3C502?). Kernel version isn't
- >important. I don't even care if it drops packets left and right, just
- >as long as it get enough to function. Thanks!
-
- (I sent a similar comment to Brian by email, but maybe it'll be helpful
- for the rest of the group.)
-
- It seems to me that writing a 3c501 driver shouldn't be all that hard.
- All the information is out there on the Internet. The first step would
- be to make sure you can reliably build the Linux kernel, and study carefully
- the other Ethernet drivers it has (especially the 3c503). Next get the
- crynwr DOS packet driver source code from omnigate.clarkson.edu or wherever
- your favorite archive is. Then use the info from the crynwr 3c501 driver
- to write a Linux one. Maybe this could be done in a similar standardized
- way to provide the kind of universal Ethernet support represented by
- crynwr and by ODI.
-
- Not having written a Linux driver yet, I can't guess the amount of work
- this is for a novice, but an expert should be able to handle it in short order.
-
- -rich
-