marcb@eyrie.img.uu.oz.au (Marc A. Boschma [Tau]) (07/24/90)
I have a problem at work, and I wonder if anyone out there can tell me if there is a solution. I have a 386 running SCO Unix with a RabbitPLUS 3270 (SNA) card in it. This all runs fine. The problem is that to get it to also handle BSC another device driver (a Xenix one) has to be added to the kernal. Is it possible to link a Xenix device driver into the Unix kernal? If not, can the device driver be edited(I know it is a binary) ? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc A. Boschma ACSnet: marcb%eyrie@labtam.oz.AU Intelligent Network Systems Telecom Australia Phone: +61 3 606 6242
rogerk@sco.COM (Roger Knopf 5502) (08/02/90)
In article <1585@eyrie.img.uu.oz.au> marcb@eyrie.img.uu.oz.au (Marc A. Boschma [Tau]) writes: > >Is it possible to link a Xenix device driver into the Unix kernal? No. Drivers at least have to be recompiled. Also, Unix has a completely different link kit/driver installation. Some drivers may require some coding changes. I suggest you contact Rabbit for a Unix driver. -- Roger Knopf <standard disclaimer applies> SCO Consulting Services "The True Believers will...formulate uunet!sco!rogerk or rogerk@sco.com a message that even a monkey could 408-425-7222 (voice) 408-458-4227 (fax) understand." --Jeff Tye
peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) (08/03/90)
In article <1585@eyrie.img.uu.oz.au> marcb@eyrie.img.uu.oz.au (Marc A. Boschma [Tau]) writes: >Is it possible to link a Xenix device driver into the Unix kernal? Probably not without recompiling. See 3-77 of the Integrated Software Development Guide. There are a number of differences between the Xenix and UNIX kernel environment spelled out, some of which are likely to effect any driver I can think of (well, maybe you could implement a "null" device that was portable :->). -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180. 'U` <peter@ficc.ferranti.com>