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I had one of these back in the day and even attempted to write a Linux kernel driver for it. All I can say is bletch, I was glad to get rid of it. Very surpris
by spitfire 10y ago
I had one of these back in the day and even attempted to write a Linux kernel driver for it. All I can say is bletch, I was glad to get rid of it.
Very surprising that it works with a PCJr however. The PCJr was different from the PC in that it had a split address space. Many PC programs - particularly ones that banged on the metal wouldn't work without porting effort.
- stuckagain 10y agoAmazing that these never supported Linux. I remember people tried to reverse engineer them but the project ran out of steam. I guess xircom felt their business was so strong they needn't cater to a bunch of hippies.
- geocar 10y agoThere were other parallel-port ethernet devices though (I myself used the Accton adapter with Linux).