Re: the BEST net card for obsd (IMHO)

[Rick Pettit <rpettit@speedqueen.core.com>]

On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Peter Johansson wrote:

> Agreed.  I'm not complaining about the driver.  If I really cared, I'd
> fix the bloody thing myself.  I was merely suggesting that a note be

	I care.  I am currently looking at the driver for my ne2000 card,
/usr/src/src/sys/dev/pci/if_ne_pci.c, right now.  I own a linksys pcmpc100
that always whines about buffer ring overflows and I would like to fix
that problem.  I have never worked with drivers before, but have enough C
knowlege I think to get by.  Is there any place on the net anyone can
recommend for learning how to write drivers like this?  The best source of
knowledge I have come across is TCP/IP Illustrated by Richard Stevens.  I
suppose I can stick to that for now.  Any other good sources of info are
greatly appreciated.


> added to the hardware compatibility section warning that, "due to a
> poorly-defined specification for which there can be a lot of
> variations, a single generic driver will not work for all cards that
> claim to be NE-2000 compatible."
> 


 	Makes sense.  So here my question is who should I contact at
linksys to get specs for the card?  And what specific type of info do
I need to have?  Is there anyone out there who has done something so
terrific as to write a network card driver loaded with enough comments to
get a newbie started writing drivers? 


								Rick