Scott Mitchell wrote:
>On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 04:14:50PM -0800, Don Wallwork wrote:
>> Hi-
>>
>> I found a linux driver for my Xircom PCMCIA ethernet card at:
>> http://pcmcia.sourceforge.org/
>
>Which card was that? All of the recent Xircom PCMCIA cards are supported
>by the xe driver in 3.x
RealPort CardBus Ethernet 10/100 (RBE-100).
I'll give the xe driver a try.
>
>> Are there any pointers available on porting linux drivers
>> to FreeBSD?
>
>I'm not aware of any, but for network drivers at least it's pretty easy
>regardless. To a certain level, a driver is a driver is a driver; they all
>have to do pretty much the same things in the same order, BSD and Linux
>just express that a little differently. I've typically found that figuring
>out how to make the d*mn badly documented hardware behave is way harder
>than glueing it into your OS of choice :-)
Agreed.
Thanks for the info.
-Don
>
> Scott
>
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