Message-Id: <199603152108.NAA19268@vandys-lap.cisco.com>
To: Chris Patti <feoh@wyn.hq.org>
Cc: vsta@cisco.com
Subject: Re: Ethernet drivers for NI5210 and Intel Etherexpress pro 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 14 Mar 1996 23:44:25 EST."
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Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 13:08:47 -0800
From: Andy Valencia <vandys@cisco.com>

[Chris Patti <feoh@wyn.hq.org> writes:]

>Unfortunately, VSTa isn't like Linux or some other free Operating System
>with hordes of drivers just waiting to be plucked from their FTP sites.
>It's a research/development OS and thus if you want a driver for you non
>NE2000 card, you're likely to have to write one.

Alas, too true in this case!

>I don't know about the Intel card, but the Racal Interlan NI5210 are
>proprietary and no specs are freely available (I used to work for a
>spin-off of Interlan and ate lunch with the driver writer often :)

Of course, if you want to invest the effort, I've always hoped that somebody
would do a wrapper library so that if_*.c drivers from *BSD could be turned
into VSTa servers with little/no modification.  My first pass code review of
the *BSD sources gave me modest hope that it could be pulled off.

						Regards,
						Andy Valencia