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Fri Mar 11, 2011 5:24 am

It seems that my computer has this network chip : DEC 21140
And... someone told me that kolibri doesn't support it yet.
Uhh... how can we develop network driver?
I would be glad to develop DEC 21140 network driver for Kolibri.

thanks,

p.s. Anyone working on developing kolibri DEC 21140 network driver?

Fri Mar 11, 2011 12:08 pm

see http://wiki.kolibrios.org/wiki/New_stack#Drivers

Fri Mar 11, 2011 1:28 pm

The driver for new network stack has already been written.
But the DEC2114x family of network cards is not the most subtle to program for, lots of device specific code is needed for each card of a different brand etc.
This has not been written yet.

You may try to port that code from the linux driver.

However, I think a 'regular' 21140 may already work.

Fri Mar 11, 2011 5:57 pm

so.... It is on work, right?
Nice to hear that :p
I hope you(i mean.. kolibri developters) develop DEC21140 driver soon.
Anyway, thanks!

p.s. I ain't good at Assembly now, but I've been learning it. After I become good at asm, please allow me to join kolibri developers group. please :p

Fri Mar 11, 2011 6:38 pm

It is being worked on yes, but currently has a low priority.

Fri Mar 11, 2011 7:30 pm

anstein99 wrote:p.s. I ain't good at Assembly now, but I've been learning it. After I become good at asm, please allow me to join kolibri developers group. please :p

You do not need to know ASM at all to become Kolibri Developer. You may write in anything, from C, C++ to LISP, Cobol and Visual Basic. The only requirement is that your program will work inside KolibriOS

Sat Mar 12, 2011 6:04 am

One question here.
Only ASM-made program can be executed in KolibriOS?

Sat Mar 12, 2011 10:19 am

anstein99 wrote:One question here.
Only ASM-made program can be executed in KolibriOS?

Directly executed - yes, only ASM, even not every ASM but FASM only.
But we have compilers for some other languages like C, C++ etc.
So you can write in C and then compile for Kolibri

Sat Mar 12, 2011 1:09 pm

There is no such things as 'directly executed'.

All code must be compiled/assembled.

Sat Mar 12, 2011 1:12 pm

hidnplayr wrote:There is no such things as 'directly executed'.
All code must be compiled/assembled.

Yes but the FASM code can be directly executed from inside KolibriOS via TinyPad.
Of course it *IS* compiled when you do it, but it's transparent for the user.
Unlike all other languages where you need to make some effort to compile it.

Sat Mar 12, 2011 1:18 pm

yogev_ezra,
Do you have any compiler for visual basic?
or other programming languages?

Sat Mar 12, 2011 1:32 pm

anstein99 wrote:yogev_ezra,
Do you have any compiler for visual basic?
or other programming languages?

We have compilers for C, C++, C--, and some others. Visual Basic was a joke, sorry

You need to compile inside your own PC, and then move the compiled file to KolibriOS.
Here are some instructions: http://diamond.kolibrios.org/hll/hll_eng.htm
Here are some more: http://wiki.kolibrios.org/wiki/Writing_ ... _KolibriOS

Sat Mar 12, 2011 9:45 pm

anstein99 wrote:Do you have any compiler for visual basic?
or other programming languages?

May be you can use Lua. It's very simple, but (for now) there are only interpreter, and it's unfinished yet. And Lua is pretty slow.

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