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From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: PC MCA ethernet card driver
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Date: 7 Dec 88 14:40:45 GMT
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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])
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