From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Apr 16 22:09:03 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id WAA02616 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 16 Apr 1995 22:09:03 -0700 Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id WAA02610 for ; Sun, 16 Apr 1995 22:09:01 -0700 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA06646; Sun, 16 Apr 95 23:02:08 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9504170502.AA06646@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: support for Xircom PCMCIA Ethernet adapters? To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Date: Sun, 16 Apr 95 23:02:08 MDT Cc: todd@water.eng.mcmaster.ca, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199504162016.WAA00821@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Apr 16, 95 10:16:12 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Is there support for the PCMCIA Xircom Creditcard Ethernet Adapter IIPS > > in FreeBSD-2.0, or is anyone working on implementing it? > > I've read somewhere that Xircom has a very restrictive copyright > policy. You'll perhaps be outta luck getting documentation. If someone is interested in disassembling Xircom's code and documenting their registers and proper programming procative from the code, then posting that information, this would allow someone else to write a driver without problems. On the other hand, I have suggested many times that the loadable kernel modules should have their loader code in the kernel, and this is one example why: to enable demand loading in a general case seperate from consideration of the symbol tables to enable the loading od Novell ODI drivers for servers. These are protected mode driver that exist for nearly all ethernet and many token ring and other odd cards. That UnixWare does it proves it is possible. Kurt Mahon has hinted that he might be able to get some of his code for this released. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.