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From: Jon Freivald <jaf@jaflrn.UUCP>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: [386bsd/linux] LAN Adapter for Parallel Port: Supported in Linu
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Date: Sun, 07 Feb 93 16:47:37 EST
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gumby@tweedledumb.cygnus.com (D V Henkel-Wallace) writes:
> Date: 4 Feb 1993 12:42:55 -0800
> From: dgreen@smurf.sti.com (Dan R. Greening)
>
> 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.
Actually, I've gotten pretty good speed (DOS based Banyan Vines LAN) out
of the Xircom adapter - I have no clue if they have any kind of Unix
support, but if you're interested, I could dig up their number for you.
Jon
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