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From: Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net>
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To: Anthony Hill <ahill@interconnect.com.au>
Cc: Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net>, ko-baba@kdd.co.jp,
        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Xircom Pocket ether adapter
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> > > I want to know whether Pocket ether adapter is supported by
> > > installer of FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE.
> > 
> > Nope, Xircom doesn't release any information about their devices, so
> > device drivers will probably never be written for them.
> 
> This is a pity - because they are a good bit of hardware. BSDI support 
> these things..... Perhaps if someone had access to BSDI source code they 
> could have a bit of a look, and maybe work something out ?

BSDI doesn't release the source code to their driver for the same
reasons we can't get source code.  Xircom will *NOT* allow the
programming specifications to be public, even with propriatary systems
like BSDi.


Nate