Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:27:41 +0100 (MET) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: brainey@cisco.com Cc: pkorsten@xs4all.nl, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Xircom CE3B-100BTX PCMCIA Ethernet Card Message-ID: <199801151827.TAA01176@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <199801151811.KAA06656@brainey-ss20.cisco.com> from Bill Rainey at "Jan 15, 98 10:11:40 am"
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As Bill Rainey wrote... > > > 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 I stand corrected. Sorry. _ ______________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko @ yedi.iaf.nl http://www.tcja.nl/~wilko |/|/ / / /( (_) Arnhem, The Netherlands - Do, or do not. There is no 'try' --------------- Support your local daemons: run [Free,Net,Open]BSD Unix --
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