This may go without saying, but have you read Chapter 22 of the FreeBSD Developers' Handbook? I have not read intro(4) extensively but that is probably a good starting place, if you are completely in the dark.
-Zera Holladay On Sun, 4 Jul 2004, Avleen Vig wrote: > On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 12:53:39PM +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > So what I guess what I am asking is how hard would this be? (I have a > > reasonable knowledge of C and Java and have been using FreeBSD for a > > couple of years but have never written a device driver (for any OS)) Do I > > actually need to write a driver or can I use something already existing? > > Where would I get information on how to do this? So far I've been looking > > at the existing drivers; ugen, ufm etc., the programmers handbook and am > > starting to look at libusb...? > > Sorry for the long message. Any pointers etc. would be greatly > > appreciated. > > I am actually in a similar situation. > I know some C, and want to write a device driver for a USB device (web > cam), but I have no idea where to start. > I've searched for a "beginners guide to writing device drivers" but > failed miserably :-( > > -- > Avleen Vig > Systems Administrator > Personal: www.silverwraith.com > EFnet: irc.mindspring.com (Earthlink user access only) > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
