From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 23 10:49:11 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id KAA09395 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 23 Feb 1995 10:49:11 -0800 Received: from schizo.coe.montana.edu (schizo.coe.montana.edu [153.90.192.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id KAA09386 for ; Thu, 23 Feb 1995 10:49:05 -0800 Received: by schizo.coe.montana.edu (5.65/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA10082; Thu, 23 Feb 1995 11:47:58 -0700 Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 11:47:58 -0700 From: osyjm@schizo.coe.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen) Message-Id: <9502231847.AA10082@schizo.coe.montana.edu> To: trost@cloud.rain.com (Bill Trost) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Xircom ethernet support? In-Reply-To: References: Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> "Bill" == Bill Trost writes: Bill> Xircom makes this cool little thingy that has a parallel Bill> port on one end and an ethernet coming out the other; I'd Bill> like to take my parallel port and put a Xircom on one side Bill> of it and FreeBSD on the other. Bill> Do I have any hope of actually getting this to work without Bill> spending hours and hours working on device-driver code? I think this will be tough, my understanding is that Xircom is reluctant to release the necessary hardware details. But maybe somebody can reverse engineer it.