Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 10:45:21 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: ko-baba@kdd.co.jp Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Xircom Pocket ether adapter Message-ID: <199603051745.KAA08617@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <H000058a01397a16@MHS> from "ko-baba@kdd.co.jp" at Mar 5, 96 04:09:02 pm
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> Please tell me. > > I want to know whether Pocket ether adapter is supported by > installer of FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE. > It is attached PC by lp0 interface, so I thought it might be > available at installation. The Xircom Pocket Adapter is not supported. There is no public documentation for the hardware, and so there is no driver. This is true for most parallel port hardware, like tape drives, IOmega ZIP and Bernoulli drives, Portable CDROMs, etc.. > If not, what does the laplink indicate? > Is it a kind of null modem cable? Yes; it is an 8 bit parallel "null-modem cable". The LapLink interface is described in detail in documentation files that accompany DOS 6.x and above. There is also PL/IP, a standard for making IP connections using the parallel port (which is what the install expects). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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