RE: [ECOS] i386 TARGET network programming

["Trenton D. Adams" <tadams at extremeeng dot com>]

  > 
  > "Trenton D. Adams" wrote:
  > >
  > > Unfortunately, I don't own either one of the cards.
  > 
  > There's always the option of writing a new driver :-).
  > 
  > > Are there any cards out there that would use the same driver as
the
  > > Intel Etherexpress?
  > 
  > Probably, it's the i82559 chipset.
  > 
  > > I need a 10/100 card for my other machine anyhow so
  > > I could just buy one of those.  I don't want to pay out the $70+
for a
  > > 3COM or $120+ for the Intel card.
  > 
  > I just remembared: there's an NE2000 driver by Christian Plessl and
  > Thomas
  > Meyer listed at http://sources.redhat.com/ecos/contrib.html which we
  > couldn't incorporate for copyright reasons. NE2K cards are a lot
  > cheaper.
  > 

So, if ne.o in linux works with the card, then the eCos driver should as
well right?

Is there anyway of getting eCos to query the drivers in linux for
network capability?  If so, I imagine it would be a lot of work right?