RE: [Sheflug] [OT, slightly] Parallel port network interfaces?

["David Bottrill" <nospam [at] ntlworld.com>]

Hi Chris,

Most NIC manufacturers made parallel port Ethernet Adapters, DLINK for
example were probably the most common. I think Xircom also made them.

I have just checked on my SuSE 6.4 box and it supports the DLINK DE600 and
DE620 "Pocket Adapters"


David



> -----Original Message-----
> From: sheflug-bounce@vuw.ac.nz [mailto:nospam [at] vuw.ac.nz]On
> Behalf Of Chris J/#6
> Sent: Monday, September 18, 2000 8:48 PM
> To: sheflug [at] vuw.ac.nz
> Subject: [Sheflug] [OT, slightly] Parallel port network interfaces?
>
>
>
> Can anyone answer this ... are there in existance devices that connect to
> parallel ports and take wither 10baseT or 10base2 network cable? Reason -
> I've got this rather old laptop that must have been created in
> the primordial
> soup in the early years, or maybe before, PCMCIA existed. As
> such, it doesn't
> have one...so the only realistic way of networking it, short of
> running huge
> lengths of serial cable about, is an adaptor like this.
>
> Secondly, if they exists, where from and how much? :)
>
> Thirdly ... although I'll be churning through the linux kernel
> tree myself
> not long after hitting "send" on this, anyone know what the linux
> support is
> like for them? :)
>
> Chris...
>
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