From: Sean Mcgrath - Sun UK - CS - Performance Engineer (Sean.McGrath at domain Ireland.Sun.COM)
Date: Tue 12 Oct 1999 - 11:10:51 IST
> From: "John P . Looney" <valen at domain tuatha.org>
> To: ilug at domain linux.ie
> 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.
.
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