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To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert)
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Subject: Re: support for Xircom PCMCIA Ethernet adapters? 
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Date: Sun, 16 Apr 1995 22:17:18 +0000
From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@star-gate.com>
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>>> Terry Lambert said:
 > > > 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.
 > 

Do you mean that we can get hold of ODI drivers (binaries) and used them
under FreeBSD?

	Tnks,
	Amancio