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Date:      Thu, 23 Feb 1995 11:47:58 -0700
From:      osyjm@schizo.coe.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen)
To:        trost@cloud.rain.com (Bill Trost)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Xircom ethernet support?
Message-ID:  <9502231847.AA10082@schizo.coe.montana.edu>
In-Reply-To: <bill%2B9687.803108@cloud.rain.com>

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>>>>> "Bill" == Bill Trost <trost@cloud.rain.com> writes:

    Bill> Xircom makes this cool little thingy that has a parallel
    Bill> port on one end and an ethernet coming out the other; I'd
    Bill> like to take my parallel port and put a Xircom on one side
    Bill> of it and FreeBSD on the other.

    Bill> Do I have any hope of actually getting this to work without
    Bill> spending hours and hours working on device-driver code?

I think this will be tough, my understanding is that Xircom is reluctant
to release the necessary hardware details.

But maybe somebody can reverse engineer it.


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