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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: freebsd support for xircom pe3?
Date: 27 Jun 1997 21:36:15 GMT
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"Rodney Wright" <rww@resmedica.com> wrote:

> Does anyone know whether or not freebsd supports Xircom pocket ethernet
> adapter?

Xircom is one of the few companies who are notorious in refusing to
give out programming documentation without signing NDAs.  As long as
they remain this way, there's not much that can be done for their
hardware in a freeware operating system.

Until then, refuse to buy their products.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)