Martin wrote:
>
> 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?
It was giving me headaches somehow. Maybe just because people kept
trying to compile in support on Linux, which was our only host OS
for a while.
Anyways sure, I'll add it back in. Hack away. The author did
a good job modularizing it so it could be ported. Check with
the bochs project guys, to see if they've ported it already.
http://bochs.sourceforge.net/
It would be a great start. We need some network connectivity
to get started.
-Kevin
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MandrakeSoft, Inc. Plex86 developer
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