Date: Sun, 16 Apr 1995 22:17:18 +0000 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@star-gate.com> To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, todd@water.eng.mcmaster.ca, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: support for Xircom PCMCIA Ethernet adapters? Message-ID: <199504162217.WAA01752@star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 16 Apr 1995 23:02:08 MDT." <9504170502.AA06646@cs.weber.edu>
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>>> Terry Lambert said: > > > Is there support for the PCMCIA Xircom Creditcard Ethernet Adapter IIPS > > > in FreeBSD-2.0, or is anyone working on implementing it? > > > > I've read somewhere that Xircom has a very restrictive copyright > > policy. You'll perhaps be outta luck getting documentation. > > If someone is interested in disassembling Xircom's code and documenting > their registers and proper programming procative from the code, then > posting that information, this would allow someone else to write a > driver without problems. > > On the other hand, I have suggested many times that the loadable > kernel modules should have their loader code in the kernel, and > this is one example why: to enable demand loading in a general > case seperate from consideration of the symbol tables to enable > the loading od Novell ODI drivers for servers. These are protected > mode driver that exist for nearly all ethernet and many token ring > and other odd cards. > > That UnixWare does it proves it is possible. Kurt Mahon has hinted > that he might be able to get some of his code for this released. > Do you mean that we can get hold of ODI drivers (binaries) and used them under FreeBSD? Tnks, Amancio
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