Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!cornell!batcomputer!sun.soe.clarkson.edu!nelson From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc Subject: Re: PC MCA ethernet card driver Message-ID:Date: 7 Dec 88 14:40:45 GMT References: <8812051917.AA04525@zaphod.ncsa.uiuc.edu> Sender: news@sun.soe.clarkson.edu Reply-To: nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu Organization: Clarkson University, Postdam NY Lines: 26 In-reply-to: timk@NCSA.UIUC.EDU's message of 5 Dec 88 19:17:28 GMT In article <8812051917.AA04525@zaphod.ncsa.uiuc.edu> timk@NCSA.UIUC.EDU (Tim Krauskopf) writes: NCSA Telnet contains two drivers for MCA cards. All of the code is in the public domain. There was a past posting that someone took our MICOM NI5210 driver and converted it to packet-driver spec, so it can be done again, I am sure. Yes. However, NCSA Telnet doesn't use interrupts for its drivers, and the packet spec virtually requires interrupts (you *could* use polling and the timer interrupt, gack.) So, the NCSA Telnet code is helpful but not sufficient. Similarly, the Fossil spec (used by Fido BBSes, Opus BBSes, and BinkleyTerm terminal emulators) doesn't support upcalls, so it is unsatisfactory for SLIP usage. The drivers are available in two ways-- You can either FTP drivers.arc from sun.soe.clarkson.edu in pub/ka9q, or you can get them from the Clarkson archive server, archive-server@sun.soe.clarkson.edu. Send three separate messages consisting of 'send ka9q drivers0X' (where X is 1, 2, and 3) and you will get three parts of a uuencoded .arc file back. If the From: address in the header isn't an internet or bitnet address, include a "path foo!bar!whatever@baz.domain.address" line so that sun.soe can get back to you. -- --russ (nelson@clutx [.bitnet | .clarkson.edu]) To surrender is to remain in the hands of barbarians for the rest of my life. To fight is to leave my bones exposed in the desert waste.