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- From: lfoard@Turing.ORG (Lawrence C. Foard)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Ethernet drivers
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.151337.22776@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- Date: 28 Aug 92 15:13:37 GMT
- References: <1992Aug28.114807.7765@athena.mit.edu> <JOEL.92Aug28085516@skater.GSFC.NASA.Gov>
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- Organization: The Turing Project, Charlottesville Virginia.
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- In article <JOEL.92Aug28085516@skater.GSFC.NASA.Gov> joel@skater.GSFC.NASA.Gov ("Joel K. Gallun") writes:
- >Hi,
- >
- >I have the source to the BSD 3c503 driver, but don't have any idea how
- >to make in into a Linux driver. If you want it, its yours. OR...
- >if you can point me to the "Guide to writing a Linux device driver",
- >I'll have a crack at it.
-
- What guide :-)
- Linux is an OS for real hackers, the kernel source is the documentation...
-
- Actually the funny thing is, it usually takes me less time to figure out
- whats going on from relatively undocumented source than man pages. If I
- had to read the man pages for the Linux kernel I'd probably still have
- no idea whats really going on.
-
- >BTW, I have a bunch of 3c503s, too.
-
- Want to sell any :-)
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