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Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Date: Thursday, 11 May 1995 09:44:24 PST
From: <SHIH@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU>
Message-ID: <95131.094424SHIH@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU>
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: networking my laptop
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Hi there,

I have FreeBSD 2.0 and XFree86-3.1.1 installed on my laptop.
It works great! Since I don't have a big hard disk on my laptop,
(503 MB, 240 MB for Windows 95, 260 MB for FreeBSD) I'd like
to seek the possilibilites of networking my laptop to my
existing LAN. Currently I have an Xircom Ethernet+modem
PCMCIA card in the loptop. As I know the Xircom was not
supported. Does anyone has a device driver for that card?

Or, Since I have lpt1 on the laptop, can I use lpt1 to connect
my laptop to an ETHERNET segement?

Thanks alot!

Ching Shih
shih@cithe312.cithep.caltech.edu