About drivers and how create one

Kevin Lo kevlo at FreeBSD.org
Thu Sep 17 15:19:38 UTC 2015


On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 11:35:31AM -0300, Nilton Jose Rizzo wrote:
> 
> 
>    Hi all,

Hi,

>       I bought a wireless mini usbcard, to test in
> FreeBSD, but it not reconized.  In CD have a Linux
> source driver.
>       My Question is :  How hard is to convert a source
> code Linux to FreeBSD and where I can found information
> about it?
> 
>      The CHIP under device is Ralink rt28XX.

Could you use usbconfig(8) to show the vendor and device IDs?  Thanks.

>      I'm using a FreeBSD -current
> 
> uname -a
> FreeBSD leblon 11.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #10 r285290: Wed Jul  8
> 21:50:30 BRT 2015     rizzo at leblon:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/LEBLON  amd64
> 
>      P.S. I Have a good knowledgement in C/C++ and assembler, but I never
> wrote a kernel module.
> 
>   TIA
> 
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	Kevin


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