Roderick Klein from Mensys has published (2010-10-31) am interesting project proposal at news://news.gmane.org/gmane.org.netlabs.genmac.user
He is also requesting for help and volunteers.
Here it is the full post.
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Hello everybody,
While not an easy route and time consuming, I have started a new
project. After the development of the Nvidia driver from Nick.
Mensys had the Intel e1000e Intel developed.
Both drivers are based on Linux source code.
A great amount of credit goes to David Azarewicz
(http://www.88watts.net). He is the person who worked hard to get UNIAUD
to the currrent shape its in. And that shape has improved a lot!
I have been talking to David to merge the 2 above drivers into 2 project.
The goal:
1. Come up with an as generic as possibly code from so that you can take
the hardware depended code from Linux and stick it in the skeleton
driver. This has been achieved:
http://svn.ecomstation.nl/multimac
You can browse the code here:
http://svn.ecomstation.nl/multimac/browser
The trick is that the common code when its updated all drivers will
benefit from it!
2. David is also working on getting support for the program cable10 in
place. This is a program written by Yuri Dario that can do media sensing
for Genmac already. Means when you stick in a network cable in your
ethernet port software can be triggered to refresh the IP adres via DHCP
(if the NIC is configured for that). Apart from Genmac that interfave
was lacking on OS/2 NIC drivers.
3. Also support for Xwlan wireless is being build into the skeleton
driver. So XWLAN should hopefully be able use ported LInux drivers
out of the box. David has already been looking in how to code this.
Since most of the Multimac code is written in C its easier to understand
then the old NIC DDK sample from IBM written in assembler. And if
anybody ever finds somebody that wants to write a NIC driver. Don't use
that crippled old IBM piece of code unless you know what your doing.
Its filled with bugs!
Once this skeleton driver is finish a new Realtek gigabit driver will be
ported from Linux and support for current Intel wireless chipsets will
then be done. Time frame not deterimined yet but hopefully somewhere in
january of next year. And of course other people are more then welcome
to help out :-) Any volenteers ?
Now time for bed.
Roderick