I know that plex 86 used to support basic emulation of a ne2000 network
card (this was originally developed for bochs).
I found out that in the recent CVS version this is disabled (configure
option --enable-ne2000 is removed)
I hacked the support back in only to find out there is only support for
freebsd host.
The freebsd version uses a bpf packet filter device /dev/bpf000
On linux there is also standard support for packet filtering so this
could be made to work on linux too.
My questions:
Is there a special reason why the ne2000 code was removed in plex86?
Is reimplementing and improving this code and making versions of this
for all host-OSes the way to go or should we make a fresh start?
the ne2000 support can be found in plex86/user/plugins/bochs/iodev
eth.cc
eth.h
eth_fbsd.cc The freebsd implementation
eth_null.cc This is an empty framework for implementing on other
hosts as freebsd
ne2k.cc
ne2k.h
The code can be re-enabled by adding all eth and ne2k .o objects to
BX_HW_IODEV_OBJS in the iodev Makefile (can be done nicely by changing
config.h.in, configure.in and iodev/Makefile.in)
Greetings,
Martin DvH
