Can someone please refer me to documentation regarding writing device
drivers for Linux 2.6.
I am having problems installing a device driver for a Conextant modem
on a debian 4.0



regards,
Milon Bhattacharya

milon <milon87@gmail.com> writes:

> Can someone please refer me to documentation regarding writing device
> drivers for Linux 2.6.

http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/ may be a good start. But do you really need
to get into writing device drivers? (Some guy with an Indian name had a
Linux device driver book come out a few months ago too but I forget the
details. May be worth looking at; I never have.)

> I am having problems installing a device driver for a Conextant modem
> on a debian 4.0

Which version of the kernel? (uname -r)

What modem is it? How does it plug in? Is it built in?

Which device driver are you trying to use for it? Where did you get it?
What `problems' occur - what do you do, what error messages appear?

Mark

On 2008-07-11, milon <milon87@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Can someone please refer me to documentation regarding writing device
> drivers for Linux 2.6.
> I am having problems installing a device driver for a Conextant modem
> on a debian 4.0
>
There are books on writing Linux device drivers, but that shouldn't be
necessary if you are installing an existing driver. You will probably
need to install the build-essential and linux-headers packages, and
describe what specific problems you are having.

Mark T.B. Carroll wrote:
> milon <milon87@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Can someone please refer me to documentation regarding writing device
>> drivers for Linux 2.6.
>
> http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/ may be a good start. But do you really need
> to get into writing device drivers? (Some guy with an Indian name had a
> Linux device driver book come out a few months ago too but I forget the
> details. May be worth looking at; I never have.)

If you REALLY do want to write you own device driver, I think
"that" book is excellent.... see:

Essential Linux Device Drivers
Prentice Hall Open Source Dev Series
by Sreekrishan Venkateswaran


“Probably the most wide ranging and complete Linux device driver book I’ve read.”

--Alan Cox, Linux Guru and Key Kernel Developer



“Very comprehensive and detailed, covering almost every single Linux device driver type.”

--Theodore Ts’o, First Linux Kernel Developer in North America and Chief Platform Strategist of the Linux Foundation