Re: Bill Paul's network drivers
On Wed, 17 Jul 2013 13:28:39 -0300, Michel Behr michelb...@gmail.com wrote: Hi I'm considering learning how to build drivers, so I can make my Lenovo S400 wireless card get detected by FreeBSD. The Architecture Handbook cites these Bill Paul's network drivers. 9.5 Network Drivers: Drivers for network devices do not use device nodes in order to be accessed. Their selection is based on other decisions made inside the kernel and instead of calling open(), use of a network device is generally introduced by using the system call socket(2). For more information see ifnet(9), the source of the loopback device, and Bill Paul's network drivers. Where can I find those Bill Paul's network drivers? All network drivers are part of the kernel sources. You should have them in your /usr/src/sys directory. Having said that, the networking stack is a large piece of software, with many parts and interactions between them. If you are planning to get into that sort of development, you should probably consider reading a _book_ about how things work. Two excellent books about drivers and networking are: FreeBSD Device Drivers by Joseph Kong (Stark Press) The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System by Marshall Kirk Mc Kusick George V. Neville-Neil (Addison-Wesley) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Bill Paul's network drivers
Hi I'm considering learning how to build drivers, so I can make my Lenovo S400 wireless card get detected by FreeBSD. The Architecture Handbook cites these Bill Paul's network drivers. 9.5 Network Drivers: Drivers for network devices do not use device nodes in order to be accessed. Their selection is based on other decisions made inside the kernel and instead of calling open(), use of a network device is generally introduced by using the system call socket(2). For more information see ifnet(9), the source of the loopback device, and Bill Paul's network drivers. Where can I find those Bill Paul's network drivers? Cheers, Michel. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Bill Paul's network drivers
On Wed, 17 Jul 2013, Michel Behr wrote:
Hi
I'm considering learning how to build drivers, so I can make my Lenovo S400
wireless card get detected by FreeBSD.
The Architecture Handbook cites these Bill Paul's network drivers.
9.5 Network Drivers: Drivers for network devices do not use device nodes in
order to be accessed. Their selection is based on other decisions made
inside the kernel and instead of calling open(), use of a network device is
generally introduced by using the system call socket(2).
For more information see ifnet(9), the source of the loopback device, and
Bill Paul's network drivers.
Where can I find those Bill Paul's network drivers?
In the source tree, mostly:
find /usr/src -path */sys/dev/* -exec grep -l Bill Paul {} \+
Joseph Kong's book FreeBSD Device Drivers will likely be useful, too:
http://nostarch.com/bsddrivers.htm
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