From: "Edwin K Bologna" <bologn_e(REMOVE)@mtn.co.za>
Subject: SCO drivers under Linux
Date: 1998/08/13
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Hi
Does anyone know about the possibility of installing SCO drivers on a Linux
box?
I am asking the question specifically for dialogic drivers (eg. the analogue
cards). Has anyone got this working under Linux?
Thanks for your help.
Edwin K Bologna
bologn_e(REMOVE)@mtn.co.za
From: e...@linux-hw.com (Eric Lee Green)
Subject: Re: SCO drivers under Linux
Date: 1998/08/16
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On Thu, 13 Aug 1998 20:43:22 +0200, Edwin K Bologna <bolog...@mtn.co.za> wrote:
>Does anyone know about the possibility of installing SCO drivers on a Linux
>box?
Sorry, no can do. The internals of Linux look nothing like the internals
of SCO Unix (thank god!), so SCO drivers just plain won't run.
iBCS allows many SCO user programs to run, but user programs run in a
different sandbox from kernel-level drivers.
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From: jba...@tethys.rz.de (Joachim Baran)
Subject: Re: SCO drivers under Linux
Date: 1998/08/16
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Eric Lee Green wrote:
>On Thu, 13 Aug 1998 20:43:22 +0200, Edwin K Bologna <bolog...@mtn.co.za> wrote:
>Sorry, no can do. The internals of Linux look nothing like the internals
>of SCO Unix (thank god!), so SCO drivers just plain won't run.
Well, I'm not sure, but what if you've a SCO driver
written using the STREAMS interface and you've got the
source?
Aren't the STREAMS drivers implemented yet?
Bye.
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From: David Grothe <d...@gcom.com>
Subject: Re: SCO drivers under Linux
Date: 1998/08/17
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Joachim Baran wrote:
> Eric Lee Green wrote:
> >On Thu, 13 Aug 1998 20:43:22 +0200, Edwin K Bologna <bolog...@mtn.co.za> wrote:
> >Sorry, no can do. The internals of Linux look nothing like the internals
> >of SCO Unix (thank god!), so SCO drivers just plain won't run.
> Well, I'm not sure, but what if you've a SCO driver
> written using the STREAMS interface and you've got the
> source?
>
> Aren't the STREAMS drivers implemented yet?
>
Yes. You can download Linux STREAMS (LiS) from http://www.gcom.com. However, you
will need the source to your SCO drivers. You will need to recompile them using the
header files that come with LiS (stream.h, etc).
-- Dave
From: ja...@purplet.jaggycraft.co.uk (Mike Jagdis)
Subject: Re: SCO drivers under Linux
Date: 1998/08/23
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In article <6qvc1l$bb...@hermes.is.co.za>, Edwin K Bologna wrote:
>Does anyone know about the possibility of installing SCO drivers on a Linux
>box?
>
>I am asking the question specifically for dialogic drivers (eg. the analogue
>cards). Has anyone got this working under Linux?
Forget it. Call the vendor and tell them you can't deal with
them unless they have a Linux driver.
Linux internals are very different from SCO internals. A driver
for SCO will not drop in to Linux. If you had the source you could
try porting it :-).
iBCS supports the kernel<->user interface. It does not emulate
kernel internals. You can run _programs_ from other systems but
it will not let you just drop a driver in to the kernel.
If you had a _pure_ STREAMS module you could, in theory, drop
it in to any system that implemented _pure_ STREAMS. Theory is not
always practice. Anyway Linux does not have a pure STREAMS stack.
As many vendors have observed STREAMS is a performance millstone :-).
Mike
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