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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA614 ; Sat, 06 Feb 93 01:01:43 EST Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!sgiblab!sti!dgreen From: dgreen@sti.com (Dan R. Greening) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: LAN Adapter for Parallel Port: Supported in Linux? Date: 4 Feb 1993 17:51:23 GMT Organization: Software Transformation, Inc. Lines: 20 Message-ID: <1krl2rINNibt@smurf.sti.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: jeff.sti.com I'd love to have a UNIX laptop, but the only way it makes sense for my situation is to have an ethernet lan adapter stuck onto the notebook. Nobody seems to make a 386/486 laptop with a built-in LAN adapter (if you know of one, please holler!) There are LAN adapters that attach to the parallel port of a notebook. The one that my computer salesperson recommended was a Soletek thinlan adapter. Does Linux run on such a beast? Would it be difficult to create a driver for said beast? I realise that I can run SLIP or PPP off a notebook, but it turns out that ethernet taps are much easier to come by at my university (and at work, actually) than serial ports. Ethernet is the only thing that really makes sense. Ideas? -- ____ \ /Dan Greening Software Transformation 1601 Saratoga-Sunnyvale Rd, #100 \/dgreen@sti.com (408) 973-8081 x313 Cupertino, CA 95014