From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Gregg C Levine" Subject: Re: Help Wanted! Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 11:30:44 -0400 Message-ID: <004e01c5c441$98efd520$6401a8c0@who7> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Sender: linux-8086-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: jb1@btstream.com, Hans Cc: Rex Walburn , linux-8086@vger.kernel.org Hello from Gregg C Levine I, as well, have stayed with this group for the same reasons. I also have here a Compaq Portable as well. It is a Portable III. Now as to your Nat Semi, applications note, have you actually implemented it? It happens I have the parts here, probably have the note as well. Incidentally has anyone tried building the current ELKS source code using today's Linux toolchain, and BCC? --- Gregg C Levine obiwanthejediknight@worldnet.att.net ----- Original Message ----- From: To: "Hans" Cc: "Rex Walburn" ; Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 5:29 AM Subject: Re: Help Wanted! > On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Hans wrote: > > > Hi Rex, > > > > Thanks for that, perhaps I am wrong, perhaps old hardware is the only thing > > people are using ELKS for. > > > > Any others, Chrysostomos? you seem to be doing some development, David, > > Harry? > > I'm still "lurking", but haven't had time to do anything serious with > ELKS since getting it running on a Compaq Portable II. > > I have some XT, 286 and stripped-down 386 machines I'd like to use as > firewalls, printer servers, file servers, etc., but that would require > ethernet capability. National Semiconductor has an application note with > 8086 assembly code for the DP8390, which would probably work with > NE1000/NE2000 ethernet cards. The application note is: > AN-874 > Writing Drivers for the DP8390 NIC Family of Ethernet Controllers > National Semiconductor > Application Note 874 > July 1993 > National's AN-937 (Loopback Diagnostics Using the DP8390/901/902/905) has > some C code that might be helpful. This is only the lowest-level hardware > stuff, and would require a great deal more to work with a real ethernet > card, but maybe the rest could be translated from Linux. If Harry's still > out there, maybe he could help. > > > > Unfortunately the mailing archive is still giving me a 404 so my > > understanding of the ELKS "world" is just 6 people, surely there must be > > more? > > I, too, was wondering what happened to the mailing list archive. > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-8086" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html