On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Joseph Dunn wrote:
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> On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Luke(boo) Farrar wrote:
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> > I've finally started work on ELKS TCP/IP.
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> > So far I've been making an ne2000 driver, but I've got some books and
> > stuff and I think its do-able.
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> > Does anyone want to help?
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> I'd like to help, but I really am not a skilled programmer. I was
> wondering if it would be possible to port Linux's TCP/IP software to
> ELKS. If there's any way I can help, I'd be glad to.
>
I'm not "skilled" particularly either, but I'm learning. I've got a big
TCP/IP bible now, and its not quite as bad as I thought.
The main problem will be keeping it vaigly (sp???) compatible with the
main Linux kernel.
I'm sure you can help. Porting driver's etc. isn't nearly as hard as
writing one from scratch.
We have the socket stuff so my plan is to hack up a cut down version of
the main Linux code. I've just mailled Alan Cox to get a few pointers, but
I mean just.
I've made the functions in af_inet.c but they are all empty.
I was planning to work from recieving a packet upwards, unless anyone has
any cunning thoughts on that one...
All the ne2000 driver does so far is detect the card and extract the mac
address but I haven't done much with it yet because I go back to school
tomorrow.
Luke(Boo) Farrar.
