On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, Bill Maniatty wrote:
> > Definately not an ethernet card. *g*
> > Seems no-one can keep up with Bill Paul in that aspect. =)
>
> We probably could not compete :-), but we are interested in ethernet
> card drivers (at some point) and would like to learn.
>
> > You could try usb devices and contact Nick Hibma for his expertise on
> > that area.
>
> How mature is the USB driver technology? If it is pretty preliminary
> we may wish to visit that later. Please recall that we are on a learning
> curve here.
Another thing to consider (AFAIU the issues here, of course :-) is whether
to choose a device that sits directly on one of standard buses (like PCI
or ISA), or has intermediate bus abstraction layer in between (like
e.g. ppbus or usb). I would assume that learning the latter would take
more time.
Andrzej Bialecki
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