Subject: Re: Hacking in the AHA2940 driver
To: Rob Windsor <windsor@pobox.com>
From: Stefan Grefen <grefen@convex.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 09/13/1995 10:24:53
In message <199509130006.TAA25386@mailhost.ksu.ksu.edu>  Rob Windsor wrote:
> Heya,
> 
> I desperately need to compile a NetBSD kernel that supports the AHA2940
> controller card.  I'm willing to hack in the FreeBSD driver if someone
> would be so kind as to point me in the right direction on how to do so.
> 
> Has anyone done this (can it be done)?
> 
| From: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
| Subject: New snapshot, more stuff on ftp.wasabi.com.
| 
| 
| I just built another i386 snapshot (this one with the real syslog(3) patch
| from the soruce tree, not Perry's first cut at it) and put it on ftp.wasabi.com.
| 
| Curt's 1.0 patched binaries are also now there.
| 
| Also, there's a new directory (pub/NetBSD/useful-stuff) with my port of the
| latest ncr driver from FreeBSD (try it if you have an 810, 815, or 825 and
| are having weird problems -- it's not perfect but it's much better) and the
| port of the FreeBSD 2940 driver from Germany, neither of which have yet made
| it into the tree, though I hope they eventually will.
| 
| Thor

The 2940 driver happens to be my port of the FreeBSD driver further enheanced 
by an other german guy (I can't rember his name at the moment).

Stefan

> The more details the better.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> -- Rob
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