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Date:      Wed, 6 Mar 1996 15:34:08 +1030 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        ahill@interconnect.com.au (Anthony Hill)
Cc:        nate@sri.MT.net, ko-baba@kdd.co.jp, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Xircom Pocket ether adapter
Message-ID:  <199603060504.PAA23121@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.91.960306094631.13562A-100000@tulpi.interconnect.com.au> from "Anthony Hill" at Mar 6, 96 09:49:37 am

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Anthony Hill stands accused of saying:
> 
> On Tue, 5 Mar 1996, Nate Williams wrote:
> 
> > > I want to know whether Pocket ether adapter is supported by
> > > installer of FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE.
> > 
> > Nope, Xircom doesn't release any information about their devices, so
> > device drivers will probably never be written for them.
> 
> This is a pity - because they are a good bit of hardware. BSDI support 
> these things..... Perhaps if someone had access to BSDI source code they 
> could have a bit of a look, and maybe work something out ?

You don't understand.  Xircom's interface is not publically disclosable.

This includes distributing code that implements it without an NDA.

> Anthony

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