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From: gumby@tweedledumb.cygnus.com (D V Henkel-Wallace)
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Subject: Re: [386bsd/linux] LAN Adapter for Parallel Port:  Supported in Linux?
Date: 5 Feb 93 18:09:16
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In-reply-to: dgreen@smurf.sti.com's message of 4 Feb 1993 12:42:55 -0800

   Date: 4 Feb 1993 12:42:55 -0800
   From: dgreen@smurf.sti.com (Dan R. Greening)

   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!)

Zenith/Bull make a few.  They're kinda heavy (~ 6lbs), but reasonably robust.

   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 or 386BSD run on such a beast?  Would it be difficult 
   to create a driver for said beast?

Beware -- those parallel-port interfaces are very slow.  I am instead
trying to get a pcmcia ethernet controller that I can drive from linux.