Help with Network Card: Davicom 9102

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Hi,

I am new to QNX. Just Installed it. Everything worked fine except for the
ethernet card. I have a Davicom 9102F card, which, as i found on the
developers network at qnx.com, is not supported. Infact the tech support
guy also said that there were no plans to support it in the future
either. Now, as i understand it, the DV9102 is a clone of the tulip series
of cards, which are supported under QNX (i remember this from a
linux-porting list discussion a while back). So then i followed the
directions on the website to manually configure the card, but that too did
not work.

Now, the way i see it, Davicom has been good enough to release the driver
for their card under linux ( and GPLed it, even! ). So there is no legal
hassle in porting the driver to QNX. Can anyone here can tell me:

  1. is there is a porting effort going on, within qnx.com, or outside. Or
    a link to any documents which shows the driver writing tricks under QNX.

  2. has someone succeded in getting this card working under QNX, using the
    tulip driver.

  3. any other helpful pointer, other that “get a new card” ( i just spent
    2000$ on building my Athlon 1GHz system, and being a student, the
    words “buy a new ***” aren’t really music to my ears).

Thanks in advance for all the help. :slight_smile:

Abhishek

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Fun fun fun time :slight_smile:

You can make it yourself soon! There is a Network SDK that is comming out
“soon” that basicly is composed of a bunch of docs explaining what to do
and source code to a driver (so I have been told). No idea when this is
comming out though.

Erick.


Abhishek Goyal <abhishek@dsl-098-b.resnet.purdue.edu> wrote:

Hi,

I am new to QNX. Just Installed it. Everything worked fine except for the
ethernet card. I have a Davicom 9102F card, which, as i found on the
developers network at qnx.com, is not supported. Infact the tech support
guy also said that there were no plans to support it in the future
either. Now, as i understand it, the DV9102 is a clone of the tulip series
of cards, which are supported under QNX (i remember this from a
linux-porting list discussion a while back). So then i followed the
directions on the website to manually configure the card, but that too did
not work.

Now, the way i see it, Davicom has been good enough to release the driver
for their card under linux ( and GPLed it, even! ). So there is no legal
hassle in porting the driver to QNX. Can anyone here can tell me:

  1. is there is a porting effort going on, within qnx.com, or outside. Or
    a link to any documents which shows the driver writing tricks under QNX.

  2. has someone succeded in getting this card working under QNX, using the
    tulip driver.

  3. any other helpful pointer, other that “get a new card” ( i just spent
    2000$ on building my Athlon 1GHz system, and being a student, the
    words “buy a new ***” aren’t really music to my ears).

Thanks in advance for all the help. > :slight_smile:

Abhishek

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Abhishek Goyal <abhishek@dsl-098-b.resnet.purdue.edu> wrote:

Hi,

I am new to QNX. Just Installed it. Everything worked fine except for the
ethernet card. I have a Davicom 9102F card, which, as i found on the
developers network at qnx.com, is not supported. Infact the tech support
guy also said that there were no plans to support it in the future
either. Now, as i understand it, the DV9102 is a clone of the tulip series
of cards, which are supported under QNX (i remember this from a
linux-porting list discussion a while back). So then i followed the
directions on the website to manually configure the card, but that too did
not work.

Now, the way i see it, Davicom has been good enough to release the driver
for their card under linux ( and GPLed it, even! ). So there is no legal
hassle in porting the driver to QNX. Can anyone here can tell me:

  1. is there is a porting effort going on, within qnx.com, or outside. Or
    a link to any documents which shows the driver writing tricks under QNX.

  2. has someone succeded in getting this card working under QNX, using the
    tulip driver.

You can try devn-tulip.so from Chris McKillop’s UNOFFICIAL driver updates
page: http://staff.qnx.com/~cdm/networking/

Regards,

Marcin


  1. any other helpful pointer, other that “get a new card” ( i just spent
    2000$ on building my Athlon 1GHz system, and being a student, the
    words “buy a new ***” aren’t really music to my ears).

Thanks in advance for all the help. > :slight_smile:

Abhishek


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Marcin Dzieciol
Technical Support
QNX Software Systems Ltd.
Email: <marcind@qnx.com>