[SqNOS] Release 16-Jul-2006: Basic networking is working!

Germán Arduino garduino at gmail.com
Tue Jul 18 17:37:53 UTC 2006


Finally I tried (booting directly from the CD).

Boot ok, but I don't get control about the image, the mouse nor
keyboard seems to respond.

Will try in another machine because this one is a bit special, but any
advice/comment about the first steps are welcome!.

Cool work!

2006/7/17, Gerardo Richarte <gera at corest.com>:
> hi! we just released a new .iso image. We should have released it a few
> weeks ago, as there are some bug fixes and additions in the native part
> (for example, FFI is included now), but we delayed it a little bit to be
> able to release an image that can be pinged over the net :-)
>
> download form:
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3891&package_id=3865
>
> The first Networking driver we have is LanceNICDevice, with support for
> AMD 79C790 cards, as emulated by vmware, what means that the .iso image
> can be booted in a vmware and pinged :-)
> We included networking support as implemented mainly by Luciano a while
> ago, all his work is now available as a Monticello package from
> http://www.squeaksource.com/Net.html. Although we have only included the
> Packet and a quick hack to respond to ARP requests and ICMP echo
> requests, support for most of the protocol in the TCP/IP suit is ready
> and only has to be plugged into SqueakNOS.
>
> We are working on improving the support for this network card, adding
> new cards (probably RTL8139 is going to be the next), and adding and
> improving all TCP/IP support.
>
> As usual, in this .iso you'll find everything needed to boot and test
> the system (either directly from the CD in a real box or with vmware),
> and to rebuild everything.
>
>     enjoy as much as possible,
>     if you have any questions, as usual, don't hesitate to ask.
>     gera
>
>


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