Wednesday, February 2, 2005

I plan to have a new ODTulipDriver release (the darwin-tulip project) within the next several weeks. I took a look at the freebsd tulip driver directory a few days ago and noticed that several manufacturers have released cards based on chipsets already supported by this driver. If I add the appropriate vendor-id and device-id codes, the driver will know to "match" against them and load. Also, at some point I intend to put some serious work into supporting the 21040A chipset which drives the ethernet on the original PowerBook G3 "Kanga" model. It's a deficiency listed by the XPostFacto project as needing a fix; I would like to contribute to this project. The author, Ryan Rempel, has done a tremendous amount of great work and deserves the support. 10:38:05 PM    comment []