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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!asylum!nelson From: nelson@asylum.UUCP (Russ Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: anyone knowledgeable about Xircom adapters? (re: 386bsd) Message-ID: <328@asylum.UUCP> Date: 15 Jul 92 02:04:20 GMT References: <BRAD.92Jul14150018@haiti.Cayman.COM> Organization: Crynwr Software Lines: 18 In article <BRAD.92Jul14150018@haiti.Cayman.COM> brad@Cayman.COM (Brad Parker) writes: > >Does anyone have knowledge about how to write Xircom ethernet adapter >drivers? Probably not. Xircom guards their programming interface jealously. For some reason they're afraid that someone might use such documentation to clone their adapter. Of course, the consequence is that people like Brad can't program for their adapter. Now, on the other hand, companies like D-Link, Accton, and Compulan have pocket lan adapters with packet drivers that come with source (GPL). Patronize the company thou wilt. -- --russ <nelson@crynwr.com> I'm proud to be a humble Quaker. Peace is not the absence of war. Peace is the presence of a system for resolving conflicts before war becomes necessary. War never creates peace.