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

German Arduino gsa at arsol.net
Thu Jul 20 21:33:56 UTC 2006


Gerardo Richarte wrote:
> Marcus Denker said:
> 
>  > Very cool... I just tried to run SqueakNOS on Paralles for Mac
> 
>> (http://www.parallels.com/).
>> It works! (I have not tried networking, though).
> 
> 
>     I don't think it'll work. I just looked it up, and the virtual 
> ethernet card is an emulated RTL8029, and we are only supporting (now) 
> the AMD Lance PCNet-32 cards (as supported by vmware).
> 
>     RTL8029 is the same card supported by qemu.
> 
>     I'm now working on the driver for RTL8139 (the 100MBits version of 
> the RTL8029), however, the hardware is not compatible, so we'll need a 
> different implementation. May be next? not sure, it's not too 
> complicated... may be the first Device collaborated by someone else? :-)

I'm not free time, but really is a topic that is of my interest.

In case I found a bit of free time, were I start reading to understand 
what to do?

Cheers.
gsa.




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