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> References: <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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