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Hello, i want program a network driver. I have looked in QEMU source for network card emulation. I found that it supports NE2000. But i didnt find a driver source for NE2000. I started SolarOS on Qemu. It detected Qemu network card as Realtek 8029 / Ne2000 on IRQ 11. Is NE2000 & Realtek 8029 the same ? Pls help me.

Hi,

First, you shouldn't read other sources when you don't have the documentation.

Check these documents:
http://www.national.com/ds.cgi/DP/DP8390D.pdf
http://www.osdever.net/documents/Writin ... ?the_id=56

The first one is a reference, which you're going to need anyway.
The second one is written by National Semidoctor too, a document about how you could write drivers for them. Really handy, if you ask me

Guest wrote: It detected Qemu network card as Realtek 8029 / Ne2000 on IRQ 11. Is NE2000 & Realtek 8029 the same ? Pls help me.

Yeah, The RTL8029 chip is NE2000 compatible in most ways. But it has also some extensions though (RTL8029AS).

HTH,

DennisCGc.

The second one is written by National Semidoctor too, a document about how you could write drivers for them. Really handy, if you ask me

I agree DennisCGc, thanks for the link .

http://www.osdev.org/osfaq2/index.php/ne2000 may be somehow helpful too, as well as http://www.osdev.org/osfaq2/index.php/O ... NickStacky

As explained there, NE2000 and RTL8xxx are not the same thing:
RTL80xx implementsNE2000.

Pype.Clicker wrote: As explained there, NE2000 and RTL8xxx are not the same thing:
RTL80xx implementsNE2000.

I did NOT say the NE2000 and the RTL8029 are the same. I said the RTL8029 is in most ways COMPATIBLE. (Oc, if it wasn't meant for me, I'll shut up )

DennisCGc wrote: (Oc, if it wasn't meant for me, I'll shut up )

wasn't meant for you