[ILUG] Laptop request

[Sean Mcgrath - Sun UK - CS - Performance Engineer]

> From: "John P . Looney" <valen at tuatha.org>
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> Subject: Re: [ILUG] Laptop request
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> On Tue, Oct 12, 1999 at 10:50:26AM +0100, Jakma, Paul mentioned:
> > > What about PCMCIA NICs ?  Any particular makes/models which just work
> > > ?
> > xircom's work pretty well ime.
> 
>  Are they not a nasty company that won't tell Linux programmers how to
> program their products ?
> 
>  AFAIK, all the Xircom drivers are reverse engineered. Buy stuff that
> supports Linux in some way.

   don't think so...
   Last I saw, the xircom drivers could be got from xircom site.
   http://www.xircom.com/tech/software/items.html#Ethernet

   I remember looking for these, and was surprised when I saw
   that xircom actually donated code...
   
> 
> Kate
> 

Sean.
.