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From: Don <north_@www.7f.no-ip.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] An old laptop
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 08:59:13 +0000
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> I would quite like to have a go at a driver, but the stumbling block
> was that Xircom were never willing to release programming information
> for the PE3.
>
> There was a BSD/OS (commercial BSD)  driver, which is how I have been
> able to use Unix on it, but BSDI had to agree not to release the source
> in order to obtain the information from Xircom. So I guess unless
> someone interested in Plan9 has worked for a company with access to this
> information and written a driver, or someone has managed to reverse
> engineer a driver, it is not going to be easy.
What version of BSD/OS?
Don
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