Hello Brent; Am Montag, 20. April 2009 19:34:15 schrieb Brent Gardner: > Juergen Northe wrote: > > Hi Brent, > > it is just two postings ago, when I demonstrated, that there is a eager > > demand for recent NIC drivers. > > > >> In my opinion the drivers which comes with the 3.1.1xx > >> require an update/upgrade for new popular nics, > >> since there a often requests for the same drivers. > > > > My advice is: do not use rare brands. Take a look at the"Intel Pro/1000 > > PT Dual Port" network card. I suppose that you need at least two ports > > ;-) I can send you the working e1000e driver, which I kindly received > > from Adam. > > > > Juergen Northe > > Juergen- > > I saw the posts related to you getting the e1000e driver. This is why I > posted looking for a NIC that already had support. I didn't want to > make work for anyone in this fine community. I don't subscribe to > leaf-devel, so I didn't know if any PCI-Express NICs were already > supported. I was just looking for more information before I make a > hardware purchase. > > I agree with the philosophy of trying to use mainstream hardware. I try > to do so. It usually makes supporting the hardware much easier. I'm > probably going to buy some of the dual-port Intel NICS. If you would > send a copy of that driver my way I would really appreciate it. > > > Developers- > > What does it take to get a driver included in the modules tarball? Will > this driver that Adam produced be included in the future?
We need a proper buildtool setup (buildtool.cfg, buildtool.mk and the source files). Given that it is intended for Bering-uClibc, any leaf developer can add it to the contrib section. To become a leaf developer one need a sourceforge account and the approval by Mike Noyes or any core developer (who then will contact Mike, because he forgot how to add a new member, like I do usually :)). The core developers then have to add it to the sources.conf to have it automatically build with the next version. See http://leaf.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/leaf/src/bering-uclibc/contrib/attansicl1/ for an example what's needed. kp ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/
