ominOS - network support!

omin0us · Post by **omin0us** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 12:57 am

Ok, i haven't really ever posted much about my OS. because well, its not doing anything that all the other ones posted here dont already do. But today I decided to because I finally am able to Ping my kernel! So its time to celebrate this milestone. I'm peeing my pants!
haha.

http://ominos.sourceforge.net

pcmattman · Post by **pcmattman** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 1:57 am

Looks good. I'm especially impressed by your networking support. I plan to persue your code and find out how you did it so that I can try it out.

How long have you been working on it?

omin0us · Post by **omin0us** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 2:56 am

thanks. :]
i've been working on it off and on for about the past 4 years. Its all gpl'ed, so have at it.

Brynet-Inc · Post by **Brynet-Inc** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 8:46 am

Hey nice work omin0us!..

Congratulations on your networking achievement

inflater · Post by **inflater** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 9:21 am

C00L

Good work!

inflater

mystran · Post by **mystran** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 3:44 pm

Mind giving us an image to play with?

anon19287473 · Post by **anon19287473** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 4:48 pm

Thanks for GPL'ing it

Kevin McGuire · Post by **Kevin McGuire** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 6:13 pm

I looked at the ne2000 and text driver.
I agree. I like it a lot. It looks like you took some time to think about driver structure, and therefore you appear to have the ground work for loading them at run time unless that is already what you are doing.

That is a whole lot better than the guys who just post some impressive screen shot and then you check out the guts and find for lack of better words a enormous main function with no modular boundaries to anything, or what I like to call no backbone.

That hard work should pay off instead of taking the short route like most, and on the side note. If I wanted pretty graphics I would have joined a forum relating to GIMP or some other tool of the such.

pcmattman · Post by **pcmattman** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 6:21 pm

mystran wrote:Mind giving us an image to play with?

He's uploaded one in his CVS repository.

omin0us · Post by **omin0us** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 7:11 pm

pcmattman wrote:
mystran wrote:Mind giving us an image to play with?
He's uploaded one in his CVS repository.

That is an oldddd old image. You'll have to build the kernel and make fdimage.
As of now the IP address for the network interface is hard coded into the kernel init function. although i have a system call setup for setting the ip. Just need to write a little user space app for setting it. Thats just farther down on the todo list though. :]

I can try to put up an up to date floppy image tonight though for those of you who dont have a dev environment setup.

mystran · Post by **mystran** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 7:15 pm

I'm just lazy to build stuff myself.

GLneo · Post by **GLneo** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 8:39 pm

what documents did you use to write this?

omin0us · Post by **omin0us** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 9:00 pm

GLneo wrote:what documents did you use to write this?

These:
http://www.nondot.org/sabre/os/files/Ne ... etails.pdf
http://www.nondot.org/sabre/os/files/Ne ... erview.pdf
http://www.nondot.org/sabre/os/files/Ne ... DP8390.pdf

As well as various other open source ne2k drivers as references.