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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
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?
Date: 9 May 1996 21:50:56 GMT
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mozart@butterfly.net (Matthew Ross Davis) wrote:

> 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.

Unfortunately not.  Xircom requires driver writers to sign a non-
disclosuer agreement.  Nobody feeled compelled to do this by now.
(Note that the agreement might be the smallest problem at all e.g.
for a small company.  However, once you wrote the driver, you will
have to maintain it for the forseeable future since nobody else can
pick up the code.)

-- 
cheers, J"org

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