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From: jbvb@VAX.FTP.COM ("James B. Van Bokkelen")
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: Ungerman Bass NIUPc and 3c503 packet drivers
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Date: 9 Jul 90 13:56:33 GMT
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>From: Denis DeLaRoca (213)825-4580 <CSP1DWD@oac.ucla.edu>
>Subject: Re: Ungerman Bass NIUPc and 3c503 packet drivers
>
>I think Russ Nelson, the keeper of the Driver Collection, had
>expressed the intention to implement an Ungerman Bass driver at
>some point. Maybe he'll reply to the list on how he is coming
>on that project.

U-B has two basic kinds of card - the NIC is dumb (having no on-board
processor) and the NIU is smart (on-board 80186).  Doing a Packet
Driver for a dumb board isn't too hard, if you can get the specs from
U-B.  Doing a driver for a smart card is a horse of another color,
given that you need code to load onto the card, a host-resident
loader of some sort, and possibly an in-circuit-emulator to debug it
(3Com's 3C505 is a special case, as it's on-board ROM contains a
basic driver).  U-B definitely has a loader, and might have a
link-layer load module (as opposed to their board-resident TCP). I
can't say whether they would release them into the public domain...

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