Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 11:34:26 -0800 From: "Fred L. Templin" <templin@erg.sri.com> To: nate@mt.sri.com Cc: hardware@freebsd.org, kelvin@uni.net.hk Subject: Re: PCMCIA card support list Message-ID: <199711101934.LAA23754@grayling.erg.sri.com>
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Nate, > Actually, no. Xircom won't give out programming information on their > network cards, hence there is no driver for them. The 'modem' cards are > the same as everyone else's, but we don't recommend anyone buying them > due to the programming problems on everything else they make. That's right - I now remember seeing the comment about FreeBSD not supporting Xircom because of their closed architecture. This brings to mind an interesting question, however: when I finish the NetWave radio driver, will the FreeBSD community even want a copy for integration into the source tree? If not, I suppose I'll have to handle release engineering on my own. I understand (and support) where the FreeBSD community is coming from on this issue, and am somewhat chagrined at being stuck with developing a public-domain driver to a proprietary interface... Fred templin@erg.sri.com
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