From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 15 10:12:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA17285 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 15 Jan 1998 10:12:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rhodes.cisco.com (rhodes.cisco.com [171.69.1.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA17239 for ; Thu, 15 Jan 1998 10:12:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brainey@cisco.com) Received: from brainey-ss20.cisco.com (brainey-ss20.cisco.com [171.69.193.41]) by rhodes.cisco.com (8.6.12/CISCO.SERVER.1.1) with ESMTP id KAA21456; Thu, 15 Jan 1998 10:11:41 -0800 Received: (brainey@localhost) by brainey-ss20.cisco.com (8.6.12/CISCO.WS.1.1) id KAA06656; Thu, 15 Jan 1998 10:11:40 -0800 Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 10:11:40 -0800 Message-Id: <199801151811.KAA06656@brainey-ss20.cisco.com> From: Bill Rainey To: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl CC: pkorsten@xs4all.nl, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <199801130708.IAA09024@yedi.iaf.nl> (message from Wilko Bulte on Tue, 13 Jan 1998 08:08:46 +0100 (MET)) Subject: Re: Xircom CE3B-100BTX PCMCIA Ethernet Card Reply-to: brainey@cisco.com Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > As Peter Korsten wrote... >> >> I have a laptop with a Xircom CE3B-100BTX PCMCIA Ethernet Card. Does anybody >> know whether there are (attempts to) drivers for either FreeBSD, other BSD's >> or perhaps Linux? And perhaps some leads to port such a driver? > > AFAIK Xircom is just as bad as Diamond used to be: they won't give you > programming info for their products, or maybe only under NDA. Actually, getting the spec from XIRCOM wasn't that bad - they just have you sign an Intellectual Property license agreement (it is not a typical NDA) for the spec which allows you to anything with the work you derive from the spec - i.e. give your source code driver away or whatever - it only prohits you from sharing the spec or expecting more support from XIRCOM. The person to contact at Xircom is John DiGiovanni Sr. Product Manager 805-376-6844 Voice 805-375-8191 Fax John_DiGiovanni@xircom.com and ask for the IP License for the Dingo Spec which is the ethernet core for the CE3B-100BTX card. The core also has the hooks for the second function part which in this case is the 56Kflex modem. Bill Rainey