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

Alan Kay alan.kay at squeakland.org
Tue Jul 18 18:00:19 UTC 2006


Terrific work! Congrats!

Cheers,

Alan

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At 07:12 AM 7/17/2006, Gerardo Richarte wrote:
>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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