From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 5 20:41:32 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id UAA02335 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 5 Mar 1996 20:41:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from server1.netpath.net (server1.netpath.net [205.139.153.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA02323 for ; Tue, 5 Mar 1996 20:41:28 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bubba@localhost) by server1.netpath.net (8.7.1/8.7.1) id XAA25503; Tue, 5 Mar 1996 23:44:35 -0500 Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 23:44:34 -0500 (EST) From: bubba bubba To: Nate Williams cc: Anthony Hill , Nate Williams , ko-baba@kdd.co.jp, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Xircom Pocket ether adapter In-Reply-To: <199603052254.PAA25268@rocky.sri.MT.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 5 Mar 1996, Nate Williams wrote: > > > > 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 > Would it be possible to use their driver and just link it ? Or are the kernel internals too different ? Also on a side note, I saw a message in the linux list that XIRCOM said they would supply Linux drivers with new products. (If this means source there may be hope, at least for new products ) --Bubba