[ros-dev] Sanos - Support of Realtek 8139 Nic

Gge gerard.gatineau at laposte.net
Wed Oct 6 20:59:21 CEST 2004


art yerkes wrote:
> On Tue, 05 Oct 2004 21:55:29 +0200
> David Kredba <kredba at ibot.cas.cz> wrote:
> 
> >>Is Sanos`s implementation of ndis and rtl8139 driver etc.
>>interesting for ReactOS developers ?
>>
>>http://www.jbox.dk/sanos/index.htm
>>
>>

>  > Those sanos guys know how to cut things down.  113k lines for enough
> system to run the sun jvm for windows.
> 
> The rtl8139 driver in there is a nicely cut down version of the linux
> one.  Not sure how legal it is to relicense gpl code to bsd license
> like this but ... 
> 
> In any case it's useful as a guide to understanding the linux 8139
> driver if nothing else.  I may use their src/sys/net/dhcp.c, as it's
> quite complete, after I check to see if there's a GPL parent of
> course.


Hello,

How complete is the support of the Nic based on Realtek 8139 chipset by 
Reactos ?

I am willing to buy one on ebay as my D-link network card is partly 
supported by reactos (serialized driver) ?

Thanks
Gerard


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