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From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch)
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?
Date: 10 May 1996 11:27:49 GMT
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brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) wrote:

> : 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.

> 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

I've just verified the announcement, and i don't think the Xircom is
supported.  (This is actually not surprising, PCCARD is targeted
towards PCMCIA boards, but the Xircom is hooked upon the printer
port.)

-- 
J"org Wunsch					       Unix support engineer
joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de       http://www.interface-business.de/~j