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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!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news 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 Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 25 Message-ID: <4mtpc0$jbi@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <mozart-0805961121090001@madama.butterfly.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:3719 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:19088 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3563 comp.unix.bsd.misc:974 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 joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)