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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!network.ucsd.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ucla-cs!ucla-mic!MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU!CSP1DWD From: CSP1DWD@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU (CSP1DWD) Subject: Re: 386bsd on notebooks? Message-ID: <19920829001308CSP1DWD@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU> Sender: MVS NNTP News Reader <NNMVS@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU> Nntp-Posting-Host: mvs.oac.ucla.edu References: <1992Aug26.130133.26565@noao.edu> Date: 29 Aug 92 00:14:03 PDT Lines: 15 In article <1992Aug26.130133.26565@noao.edu>, on 26 Aug 92 13:01:33 GMT, rstevens@noao.edu (W. Richard Stevens) writes: >NFS anyways. I had intended to use a Xircom pocket Ethernet adapter >(I was prepared to write the driver myself), but it turns out Xircom >won't give you any information at all about programming their device. Maybe a D-Link adapter... a packet driver for it is in the current Crynr Packet Driver Collection, that documentation could be used for a 386BSD driver... though, as I remember the driver had some nasty delay loops running with interrupts disabled to gurantee certain timing when pushing nibles down the parallel port control lines. -- Denis