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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: <329@asylum.UUCP> Date: 15 Jul 92 02:08:15 GMT References: <BRAD.92Jul14150018@haiti.Cayman.COM> <1992Jul15.111209.5892@csc.canterbury.ac.nz> Organization: Crynwr Software Lines: 22 In article <1992Jul15.111209.5892@csc.canterbury.ac.nz> cctr132@csc.canterbury.ac.nz (Nick FitzGerald, CSC, Uni. of Canterbury, NZ) writes: >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? > >Is there code in the Crynwr packet driver collection for a Xircom driver? No. There was going to be, but Xircom got cold feet when they found out that they had to distribute their source. So they went ahead and distributed the driver anyway, in violation of the copyright. They say that they weren't aware of such a requirement, but ignorance of the copyright is no defense. So the long and short of it is that there is no freely copyable Xircom driver. But that's okay, because their competition does have one... :) -- --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.