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Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 07:19:05 PST7
From: Harry Chris Motin <hmotin@attglobal.net >
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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Thanks, Peter. I'll follow your advice.
HACM
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Peter Skye wrote:
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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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