On Sat, 9 Dec 2006, Michael B. Brutman wrote:
Jay West wrote:
I have one of the parallel port to ethernet
devices... a Xircom. I
wonder if anyone ever reverse engineered the user interface to the
parallel port for it :)
Somebody tried - they were working on a Linux device driver for it,
and you can search to find the results. In a nutshell, Xircom never
released the specs, and it was too much of a pain to reverse
engineer. Hence it is not supported by Linux.
Eh...them's fightin words^O^O^O^O^Othere's a challenge :)
I guess I'll have to add this to my ever growing to-investigate/to-do
list. Dunno where I'd find the adapters these days though.
-Toth
If you'd spoke up sooner, I had 3 on eBay a few weeks back. They were
rotting here, and I wanted them out. The were PE3's
If I find another, I'll note it to the list.
Jim