From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10188 invoked by alias); 20 Jul 2005 06:32:36 -0000 Mailing-List: contact ecos-discuss-help@ecos.sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: ecos-discuss-owner@ecos.sourceware.org Received: (qmail 10083 invoked by uid 22791); 20 Jul 2005 06:32:22 -0000 Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (HELO wproxy.gmail.com) (64.233.184.201) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with ESMTP; Wed, 20 Jul 2005 06:32:22 +0000 Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i13so1439278wra for ; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 23:32:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.53.25 with SMTP id b25mr1032166wra; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 23:31:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.14.50 with HTTP; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 23:31:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 06:32:00 -0000 From: Rohit Agarwal Reply-To: Rohit Agarwal To: andrew@lunn.ch, ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com In-Reply-To: <20050720054441.GE29741@lunn.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <20050720054441.GE29741@lunn.ch> Subject: Re: [ECOS] connecting a wi-fi lan card to a IXDP425 processor using the PCI slot X-SW-Source: 2005-07/txt/msg00197.txt.bz2 i know its gonna be very difficult for me, but unfortunately, i have taken up this project n now i hv no other way but to complete it On 7/20/05, Andrew Lunn wrote: > On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 10:47:04AM +0530, Rohit Agarwal wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am very new to IXDP425 and eCos. As a part of my college project, I > > am supposed to connect a wi-fi lan card to a IXDP425 processor using > > the PCI slot. > > > > However I have identified some issues that need to be addressed first. > > > > 1. I have realised that the TCP/IP stack in eCos is a port of the > > FreeBSD stack. So, I will have to use FreeBSD wlan drivers instead of > > linux drivers, which I earlier had in my mind. > > > > 2. Also, since 802.11 has its own protocol stack which goes between > > the TCP/IP and the hardware driver, I will need to port this stack > > also. > > > > 3. Since eCos's port of the FreeBSD stack is quite old, I will also > > need to update the TCP/IP port. > > > > Being quite new at these things, I am not able to figure out how to pro= ceed. > > > > Please give me some suggestions or references from where I can get > > some information which might help me. >=20 > You might want to evaluate if this project is possible given your > experiance and available time. To me it sounds like a lot of work and > it's not going to be easy. >=20 > Anyway: >=20 > http://www.freebsd.org/ >=20 > The FreeBSD sources can be downloaded from > http://www.freebsd.org/support.html#cvs >=20 > http://mail-index.netbsd.org/current-users/2003/10/13/0010.html > http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2001/04/19/Big_Scary_Daemons.html > http://kerneltrap.org/node/4383 >=20 > Im sure with a bit of googling you will find more.... >=20 > Andrew >=20 --=20 if u dont know it, it doesnt exist -- Before posting, please read the FAQ: http://ecos.sourceware.org/fom/ecos and search the list archive: http://ecos.sourceware.org/ml/ecos-discuss