On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 18:41 +0100, Erik Mouw wrote: > 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 . Thanks. The network card I have installed in my machine is a 3Com. 0000:00:0f.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX [Cyclone] (rev 30) Subsystem: 3Com Corporation 3C905B Fast Etherlink XL 10/100 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16 I/O ports at ec00 [size=feba0000] Memory at febcff80 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128] Expansion ROM at 00020000 [disabled] Capabilities: <available only to root> How open has 3Com been to device driver writers looking for information? I have never approached a company for a device driver writing kit. So far I have been fortunate when I have had a need for x86 specifications and technical documentation since Intel openly provides that information. Stephen -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
