From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Apr 16 15:04:04 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id PAA15801 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 16 Apr 1995 15:04:04 -0700 Received: from ain.charm.net (ain.charm.net [198.69.35.206]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id PAA15755 ; Sun, 16 Apr 1995 15:02:19 -0700 Received: (from nc@localhost) by ain.charm.net (8.6.11/8.6.9) id RAA15029; Sun, 16 Apr 1995 17:56:12 -0400 Date: Sun, 16 Apr 1995 17:56:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Network Coordinator To: HOSOKAWA Tatsumi cc: todd@water.eng.mcmaster.ca, questions@FreeBSD.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org, hosokawa@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp Subject: Re: support for Xircom PCMCIA Ethernet adapters? In-Reply-To: <199504161952.EAA11376@remington.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 17 Apr 1995, HOSOKAWA Tatsumi wrote: > >> Is there support for the PCMCIA Xircom Creditcard Ethernet Adapter IIPS > >> in FreeBSD-2.0, or is anyone working on implementing it? Would it be > >> compatible with any of the supported PCMCIA Ethernet adapters? If anyone > >> is working on support for it, I'm willing to test. Alternatively, I could > >> work on this project if I had the proper technical documentation. > > I heard Xircom hates free software, and I've not heard that their > policy had changed. So you won't read any technical documentation as > long as you want to use it for free software. > Doesn't Linux have a driver supporting some Xircom hardware? I could have sworn I have seen those running around. Moreover, I still haven't figured out why companies that make *hardware* hate free software? Its not like making free software will reduce the purchases or profit margins of their hardware, in fact, it will probably increase them. [software doesn't make much sense without hardware]. --How could we run FreeBSD without several megabytes of RAM? Texas Instruments and/or Micron aren't going to say their chips aren't designed to be used with free software. Ah well... -Jerry.