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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Support for xircon parallel ethernet ?
Date: 24 Jul 1995 12:23:09 +0200
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Keywords: xircon ethernet parallel
Anthony Hill <ahill@stang.netspace.net.au> wrote:
>I just noticed that BSDI supports the xircon parallel ethernet adaptor -
>is anyone considering (or have they already) having a look at getting
>these things to work with FreeBSD ?
Xircom is said to give out the required information only under NDA, so
it is unlikely to be supported by FreeBSD (unless somebody would be
going to sign the NDA and sell binary-only drivers, or unless somebody
would ``cleanroom''-reengineer their code).
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)