on 12/11/01 16:26, R Pickett at emerson_at_hayseed.net wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Laurent Daudelin wrote:
>
>> If you know that a specific Ethernet card would be compatible with the
>> NE2000 driver and that the only modification to do would be to recognize the
>> card by adapting the product and appropriate strings in the Newton package
>> that is used to include the C++ code for the driver, then if any user with
>> such a card would run the GetCardInfo package and email me the resulting
>> Notepad note, I believe I could easily create a specific package for that
>> card. That driver could then be uploaded in the Ethernet section on chuma.
>> What say you, Victor (and others with possible Ethernet card candidates)?
>
> Having never looked at Newton ethernet driver code, I may be positing
> something completely naive, but wouldn't it be saner to have someone
> 'maintain' the NE2000 driver to include a list of cards it recognizes,
> instead of making a bunch of largely-duplicative packages? Release
> occasionally with a new version number, and a README that tells all
> supported cards?
Problem is, one package usually recognizes one type of card, that is, the
product string reported by a card that is inserted in the Newton. If many
cards report the same product string, then they are all supported by the
same driver. I know from Paul Guyot that he was at some point working with
Victor to come up with a "universal" driver, but I don't know what were the
specifics. Somebody might be able to come up with a piece of code that would
read the product string upon card insertion and then forward that to the
universal driver that would then be able to report being able to drive the
card, but I'm not sure about all of this...
-Laurent.
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