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Date:	Tue, 1 Jan 2002 12:49:24 PST7
From:	Sheridan George <s-geo@usa.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Device driver: was Linksys Wireless Access Point

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Steven Levine wrote:
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> In <3C2D3114.CE25013A@usa.net>, on 12/28/01
> at 06:57 PM, Sheridan George said:
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> >Maybe we should entertain a change from the programming SIG (which seems
> >to have fallen by the wayside) to a device driver SIG.
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> I'm just waiting for some workers to show up.
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> >Learning how to create device drivers is probably not that big a problem.
>
> It is and it isn't. All the tools and samples are free for the asking
> from IBM's DDK site. Working sample code is available. Watcom 11.0c is
> now available from OpenWatcom. That said, you need to understand the
> driver architecture and understand how to use the tools and understand how
> to effectively test a driver.

If the Watcom 11.0c compiler is for C of C++ then there is another problem. I'm among the few
(several?) that does not write (and understands only a little) C or C++. That may be the biggest
hurdle. Besides C, C++, and Assembler what other languages does it make sense to use for devise
drivers?

> >at least some driver problems for our selves. Or maybe we can learn how
> >to port Linux drivers.
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> Much of the work has already been done for you. See the drivers available
> at Netlabs.

I can read what you wrote but since I don't know the relationship between Linux and OS/2 drivers I
don't understand what you mean by "see the drivers ... Netlabs".

Sheridan

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