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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!news.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!gatech!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!news.roundabout.org!news.demon.co.uk!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: Xircom PocketEthernet support? Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc Date: 9 May 1996 15:37:23 +0100 Organization: Coverform Ltd. Lines: 31 Message-ID: <4msvv3$23f@anorak.coverform.lan> References: <mozart-0805961121090001@madama.butterfly.net> X-NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:3720 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:19089 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3564 comp.unix.bsd.misc:975 Matthew Ross Davis (mozart@butterfly.net) wrote: : 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 FreeBSD supports it from 2.2-960323-SNAP, with the PCMCIA support package available at: ftp://ryukyu.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp/pub/FreeBSD/pccard/pccard-test-960508.tar.gz -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....