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From: mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Pocket LAN adapters
Message-ID: <1991Feb8.202427.1779@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us>
Date: 8 Feb 91 20:24:27 GMT
Organization: The Programmer's Pit Stop, Public Access Unix +1 313 665 2832
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We have a laptop computer that we'd like to connect to our Ethernet when
it's at the office.  Since adding an expansion slot to the laptop is
not practical, the natural solution seems to be a pocket LAN adapter
that attaches to the parallel port.  The only one I've heard of is Xircom's,
and unfortunately, it doesn't fulfill our requirement for packet-driver
support based on the v7.0 packet driver core code.  (The reason we need
v7.0 packet drivers is that we're running 802.3-based Novell and Ethernet
II-based TCP/IP on the same wire and on the same machines, using BYU
IPX.  The laptop needs concurrent Novell and TCP/IP access, and I'd like
to do it the same way I did it on the other machines.)  Suggestions for
pocket LAN adapters, as well as suggestions for ones to stay away from,
are greatly appreciated.

-- 
Marc Unangst                | "I think I have a bad disk.  Even though I
mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us   |  folded it to fit into my drive, it still
...!umich!leebai!mudos!mju  |  doesn't work..." -Caller to a tech support line