[2053] in linux-net channel archive
Re: Important peripherals..
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (D.A.B. Niggemann)
Tue Mar 12 18:14:05 1996
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 23:23:28 +0000 (GMT)
From: "D.A.B. Niggemann" <dabn100@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <m0tvpfw-0005HXC@lightning.swansea.linux.org.uk>
On Sun, 10 Mar 1996, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Not to be too facetious, but this kind of device support could be useful in
> > countries where the only reliable means of data comms is still telex.
>
> struct sockaddr_telex st;
> st.st_family=AF_TELEX;
> strcpy(st.st_address,phonenumber);
> s=socket(AF_TELEX, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
> bind(s,&st,sizeof(st));
Ok Ok Ok. No need to be pedantic......
Why not AF_MODEM (AF_POTS) then :)
[stuff about AX25 deleted. point taken with pinch of salt]
> > BTW who should I contact about rewritten network drivers for the 3c507
> > ni5210 and exos205 (my own contribution)?
>
> 3c507: Not sure who has one - maybe post it to the linux-net channel for
> people to test out hard with 8K and 16K cards.
> ni5210: M. Hipp (see the existing ni52.c for an address), he's actively working
> on the ni52 still (as of January anyway)
I have spoken to him a _long_ time ago when my driver wasn't nearly ready yet
Maybe I should talk to him again......
> exos205: I'm tempted to say the bin, but its net-patches@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
^^^
> and I suppose if we have 3c501 we need the exos
Not fair! (well, yeah, maybe) I've had about 5-7 requests for this driver
in a year. Not much really. But it _is_ a better card than the 3c501!
And there seem to be people throwing them away left,right and center
(A few big companies bought lots of these in the late 80's it seems 'cause
it seems it was the first card to do TCP/IP on lowly 8086/286 PC's with
Novell LAN Workplace. ) Free Software for free hardware!
Now to all those people with 3c507s lurking on the linux-net list (hopefully)
Could you please mail me so I can send you a test version of the new driver,
if you're willing to test it, that is?
I'd love it if somebody could test multicast/promisc too.
Please suggest where else I could make this public (Donald Becker, are
you listening?)
Thanks,
Dirk
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