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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA872 ; Mon, 08 Feb 93 19:00:20 EST Xref: sserve comp.os.linux:25385 comp.unix.bsd:10942 Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!spool.mu.edu!enterpoop.mit.edu!cambridge-news.cygnus.com!dumb!gumby From: gumby@tweedledumb.cygnus.com (D V Henkel-Wallace) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: [386bsd/linux] LAN Adapter for Parallel Port: Supported in Linux? Date: 5 Feb 93 18:09:16 Organization: Cygnus Support, Cambridge MA USA Lines: 17 Message-ID: <GUMBY.93Feb5180916@tweedledumb.cygnus.com> References: <1krl2rINNibt@smurf.sti.com> <1krv4f$l9j@smurf.sti.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: tweedledumb.cygnus.com 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.