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Re: connecting a wi-fi lan card to a IXDP425 processor using the PCI slot


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 <andrew@lunn.ch> 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 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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