From: gumby@tweedledumb.cygnus.com (D V Henkel-Wallace) Subject: Re: [386bsd/linux] LAN Adapter for Parallel Port: Supported in Linux? Date: 5 Feb 1993 18:09:16
Date: 4 Feb 1993 12:42:55 -0800
From: dgreen@smurf.sti.com (Dan R. Greening)
I'd love to have a UNIX laptop, but the only way it makes sense for my
situation is to have an ethernet lan adapter stuck onto the notebook.
Nobody seems to make a 386/486 laptop with a built-in LAN adapter (if you
know of one, please holler!)
Zenith/Bull make a few. They're kinda heavy (~ 6lbs), but reasonably robust.
There are LAN adapters that attach to the parallel port of a notebook.
The one that my computer salesperson recommended was a Soletek thinlan
adapter. Does Linux or 386BSD run on such a beast? Would it be difficult
to create a driver for said beast?
Beware -- those parallel-port interfaces are very slow. I am instead
trying to get a pcmcia ethernet controller that I can drive from linux.