How to make drivers

[Echylo]

Maybe a very general question, but how do you actually write drivers for hardware??? Example, I wanna make a driver for my USB scanner, where do I have to start? it's very general, and maybe difficult to answer question, but I'd liked to know :)

[arctic]

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=4786

[Echylo]

damn, it looks hard :( :P not that I expected it was easy, but I still have to learn the languages & stuff, so it's a 10 year project :P :)

[ZaZu]

Even if you make the driver theres no guaranty MDK will use it , my ADSL NIC's driver is in the ATM modules folder where it belongs and MDK won't even look for it there!

 

So I can't use my ADSL with MDK...at least Windows would ask "where should I look,and for what?"

[Cannonfodder]

Where is Mandrake looking for those drivers? Can you symlink it to the ATM location?

[ZaZu]

Its looking at the list of drivers I think in the net folder,its where it looks when your setting up a NIC but my NIC needs a ATM module

 

I don't know enough about MDK to know if I can "symlink"

[Echylo]

now, I don't even know how to start, just hope there will be once a driver for it :)

[Cannonfodder]

Try googling on

 

linux link symbolic

 

basically its like a windows shortcut..