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From: mozart@butterfly.net (Matthew Ross Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Xircom PocketEthernet support?
Date: Wed, 08 May 1996 11:21:09 -0400
Organization: HuskyLabs
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Hi everyone,

I'm looking at the BSDI pages right now, and I see that they list the
Xircom PocketEthernet II and III as a supported networking device.

I have one of these little suckers on my AcerNote 730C that I want to put
a unix system on. I wanted to use Linux, but the support for this adapter
doesn't exist.

I'm hoping that since BSDI supports it, maybe it has been ported to
FreeBSD or NetBSD. Is there any hope for me getting Windoze off this thing
and install an OS I can actually use?

(i got this machine as a freebie from my father's office because he no
longer uses it, and it has Windows 3.11 on it now. The most money I want
to put into it is perhaps another 4 or 8 megs of RAM).

Thanks lots,

Matthew Ross Davis
mozart@butterfly.net