*BSD News Article 68143


Return to BSD News archive

Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!news.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!gatech!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!news.roundabout.org!news.demon.co.uk!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail
From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Xircom PocketEthernet support?
Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Date: 9 May 1996 15:37:23 +0100
Organization: Coverform Ltd.
Lines: 31
Message-ID: <4msvv3$23f@anorak.coverform.lan>
References: <mozart-0805961121090001@madama.butterfly.net>
X-NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]
Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:3720 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:19089 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3564 comp.unix.bsd.misc:975

Matthew Ross Davis (mozart@butterfly.net) wrote:
: Hi everyone,

: I'm looking at the BSDI pages right now, and I see that they list the
: Xircom PocketEthernet II and III as a supported networking device.

: I have one of these little suckers on my AcerNote 730C that I want to put
: a unix system on. I wanted to use Linux, but the support for this adapter
: doesn't exist.

: I'm hoping that since BSDI supports it, maybe it has been ported to
: FreeBSD or NetBSD. Is there any hope for me getting Windoze off this thing
: and install an OS I can actually use?

: (i got this machine as a freebie from my father's office because he no
: longer uses it, and it has Windows 3.11 on it now. The most money I want
: to put into it is perhaps another 4 or 8 megs of RAM).

: Thanks lots,

: Matthew Ross Davis
: mozart@butterfly.net

FreeBSD supports it from 2.2-960323-SNAP, with the PCMCIA support package
available at:

  ftp://ryukyu.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp/pub/FreeBSD/pccard/pccard-test-960508.tar.gz

--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....