On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 11:37:33AM -0500, Stephen torri wrote: > 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? See http://www.tux.org/lkml/#s2-5 . > 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. I'd say an ethernet card is easier. Erik -- Erik Mouw J.A.K.Mouw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx mouw@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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