On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 02:10:01AM -0600, Richard Rauch wrote:
> A little over a year ago, it looked like I was going to have a use for
> Ethernet.  On someone's dated recommendation, I bought a Linksys card (the
> recommendation had been given when they still used DEC Tulip chips; I have
> no idea what they were using when I bought the card, and didn't know that
> they had switched).
> 
> I figured that I'd see NetBSD support for it before long, and would sooner
> or later want the card anyway, so I didn't bother seeing if I could return
> it.  I had the impression that the card was going to be supported in 1.4,
> but that didn't happen.  It is currently detected by the system as a
> ``Lite-On Communications'' product, and is even known to be an Ethernet
> card.  It does not seem to be supported, though.
> 
> That's history.  I want to know a few things:
> 
> Is it supported in -current?

Yes, by the tlp driver

> 
> If so, then is it reasonable to expect it to be supported in 1.5, whenever
> that comes around?

Yes.

> 
> If it's supported in -current, how much work would it be to snag it and
> drop it into a 1.4.x kernel?  (Bear in mind that I'm comfortable building
> a kernel, and passable at C programming, but don't know the kernel
> internals.)

Not too easy, otherwise I think it would already be in the 1.4.x branch :)
It requires a lot of changes to the mii interface which interracts with other
ethernet drivers too.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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