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From: km@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu (Ken Mitchum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Received:
Message-ID: <1989Dec19.193719.19262@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu>
Date: 19 Dec 89 19:37:19 GMT
References: <6227@nigel.udel.EDU>
Reply-To: km@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu (Ken Mitchum)
Organization: Decision Systems Laboratory, Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA.
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In article <6227@nigel.udel.EDU> mmdf@udel.EDU (The Mailer) writes:
>Via:        000060500003.SPCP+MAIL; 15 DEC 89  9:32:26 GMT
>Date:       Fri, 15 Dec 89 09:31:49 BST
>To:         info-minix@udel.edu
>From:       PILLAY.KDA%EXETER.AC.UK@cunyvm.cuny.edu
>Subject:    Minix network request
>Message-ID: <PILLAY.KDA.JTTY@UK.AC.EXETER>
>
>I have been using MINIX for a fair bit of time and would like to use it on
>a LAN node where the Comms controller is a Z8530, which encapsulates data
>as SDLC or HDLC frames. I have just acquired Version 1.3 and I was
>wondering wether anybody had modified the Amoeba Network Software to work over
>a HDLC controller. Could anyone let me know wether any software along those
>lines any other public domain/shareware software( in C, Pascal or M2) for
>implementing HDLC or SDLC comms is available.

You can find good examples of programming this chip in the sources of
various versions of the KA9Q "net" program. Probably the most complete
is the driver "scc.c" in the PE1CHL version of the program. Send me mail
if you have trouble locating this.


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   Ken Mitchum MD  KY3B
   Decision Systems Labs
   University of Pittsburgh
   km@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu