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Date:	Wed, 2 Jan 2002 06:52:10 PST7
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: Device driver: was Linksys Wireless Access Point

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Harry Chris Motin wrote:
>
> I recently downloaded all of IBM's device driver kit (DDK)
> but I have not had time to look at it or see how it works.
> I do not have C or C+ and don't know how to program in
> that language. I would be interested in developing drivers
> for OS/2, especially drivers for various sound cards and
> mice. I would be interested in a "how to" class from SCOUG.

Mornin' Harry, :)

Use the Watcom C compiler (I think it's now free) rather than the C
compiler that comes in the DDK. From memory it's at
http://www.openwatcom.org/ but I'm not sure (Steven, do you recall?).

There's a book on writing OS/2 drivers, "Writing OS/2 2.1 Device Drivers
in C" by Steven J. Mastrianni. It does an okay job of explaining driver
development, though you'll probably need some additional help to get
your first driver written. Somewhere around here I have a copy.

One thing that I found very helpful was to disassemble some drivers and
"walk through the code".

Driver development is time consuming . . .

- Peter

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