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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!tamsun.tamu.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!caen!umeecs!nova!ellis From: ellis@nova.gmi.edu (Stew Ellis) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: anyone knowledgeable about Xircom adapters? (re: 386bsd) Message-ID: <ellis.711254935@nova> Date: 16 Jul 92 02:48:55 GMT Article-I.D.: nova.ellis.711254935 References: <BRAD.92Jul14150018@haiti.Cayman.COM> <328@asylum.UUCP> Sender: news@zip.eecs.umich.edu (Mr. News) Organization: GMI Engineering&Management Institute, Flint, MI Lines: 30 nelson@asylum.UUCP (Russ Nelson) 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? >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. I am having trouble finding contact addresses or phone numbers for the alternate sources for pocket lan adapters. Would Russ or someone else post, particularly one with source. -- -- ___________________ R.Stewart(Stew) Ellis, Assoc.Prof., (Off)313-762-9765 / _____ ______ Humanities & Social Science, GMI Eng.& Mgmt. Inst. / / / / / / Flint, MI 48504 ellis@nova.gmi.edu /________/ / / / /