Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!clarkson!grape.ecs.clarkson.edu!nelson From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans Subject: Re: Parallel port NICs Message-ID: Date: 24 Apr 91 16:10:27 GMT References: <1138@lclark.UUCP> Sender: usenet@grape.ecs.clarkson.edu Reply-To: nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu (aka NELSON@CLUTX.BITNET) Distribution: comp Organization: Clarkson University, Potsdam NY Lines: 17 In-Reply-To: dan@lclark.UUCP's message of 23 Apr 91 17:56:29 GMT In article <1138@lclark.UUCP> dan@lclark.UUCP (Dan Revel) writes: I've been seeing ads for several ethernet interfaces for laptops that plug into the parallel port. Does anyone have experience with these? What sort of network performance do they provide? Could they be used for desktop PCs as well? (it would save one expansion slot) What about software support? Are there packet drivers for these NICs? Xircom has a packet driver, but I cannot recommend them (email for details). D-Link has a Clarkson-derived packet driver that's in the 9.x release. IQ Technologies wants you to run NDIS and dis_pkt. They are specifically not interesting in supplying a packet driver at this time. -- --russ I'm proud to be a humble Quaker. It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear -- Freeman Dyson I joined the League for Programming Freedom, and I hope you'll join too.