I have been able to get a simple test module to work in the 2.6 kernel I have installed on my machine. This is exciting and very encouraging. So to continue on from this success I am eager to write an actual device driver. A standard situation I find is that I can get a new card from someone as a donation or buy one from the store. The card has windows drivers and no linux drivers. If I just have the card how do I go about writing a device driver for it? For example I have a few ethernet cards setting around which I believe already have an existing driver written in the kernel. I could use those because they give me at least another driver that is known to work in order to compare my driver against it. Is an ethernet card too hard to start out with as the first driver? Other things that I have sitting around is a Soundblaster Live (don't know exact model) and an old 3DFx graphics card. Stephen -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
