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Subject: Re: 386bsd on notebooks?
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Date: 29 Aug 92 00:14:03 PDT
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In article <1992Aug26.130133.26565@noao.edu>, on 26 Aug 92 13:01:33 GMT,
rstevens@noao.edu (W. Richard Stevens) writes:

>NFS anyways.  I had intended to use a Xircom pocket Ethernet adapter
>(I was prepared to write the driver myself), but it turns out Xircom
>won't give you any information at all about programming their device.

Maybe a D-Link adapter... a packet driver for it is in the current
Crynr Packet Driver Collection, that documentation could be used for
a 386BSD driver... though, as I remember the driver had some nasty
delay loops running with interrupts disabled to gurantee certain
timing when pushing nibles down the parallel port control lines.

-- Denis