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Re: connecting a wi-fi lan card to a IXDP425 processor using the PCI slot
- From: Andrew Lunn <andrew at lunn dot ch>
- To: Rohit Agarwal <rohitrules at gmail dot com>
- Cc: ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 07:44:41 +0200
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] connecting a wi-fi lan card to a IXDP425 processor using the PCI slot
- References: <fc5cbb320507192217a556472@mail.gmail.com>
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 proceed.
>
> Please give me some suggestions or references from where I can get
> some information which might help me.
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.
Anyway:
http://www.freebsd.org/
The FreeBSD sources can be downloaded from
http://www.freebsd.org/support.html#cvs
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
Im sure with a bit of googling you will find more....
Andrew
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