From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Nov 16 14:39:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA27143 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Mon, 16 Nov 1998 14:39:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freeway.dcfinc.com (cx74889-a.phnx3.az.home.com [24.1.193.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA27138 for ; Mon, 16 Nov 1998 14:39:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chad@freeway.dcfinc.com) Received: (from chad@localhost) by freeway.dcfinc.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA18570; Mon, 16 Nov 1998 15:38:07 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from chad) From: "Chad R. Larson" Message-Id: <199811162238.PAA18570@freeway.dcfinc.com> Subject: Re: D-Link DE620 In-Reply-To: <199811162141.QAA24188@mailhub.hcl.com> from Dj Browne at "Nov 16, 98 04:44:54 pm" To: derek@hcl.com (Dj Browne) Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 15:38:07 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-to: chad@DCFinc.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As I recall, Dj Browne wrote: > > The LapLink cable method was a consideration at one point but it really > defeats the purpose of having a portable. I would have to have another > machine that would be using TCP/IP on the parallel port (basically another > BSD machine) that I presently do not have at all the locations I bring the > laptop to. Or, write the driver... :-) > Just curious...any idea how the performance is using the parallel port? Pretty good. I thought it would be poor, given that only 4 bit per buss state get transferred. But the parallel port can cycle pretty fast. Quoting from /usr/src/sys/i386/isa/lpt.c * Expect transfer-rates up to 75 kbyte/sec. * * Poul-Henning Kamp -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org chad@anasazi.com larson1@home.net DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message