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From: Brandon Black photon@nol.net
Subject: FDDI on plan9
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 09:00:15 -0600 (CST)



Larry,

	Thanks for sending the letter and being helpful and open with
technical info.  I personally am probably not the person to port the
driver to plan 9, there are probably much more experienced indivduals on
the 9fans mailing list who could take a better shot at it.  This is being
sent to that list in the hopes that somebody else will pick up this thread
with you...  If you'd like to join the 9fans list, send mail to
9fans-request@cse....

	Brandon 


On Tue, 19 Nov 1996, Larry Stefani wrote:

> >>drivers for some popular PCI FDDI cards... Fast Ethernet cards would >>be nice too, but FDDI is of course much better :)
> 
> Hi Brandon,
> 
> Since I work on THE leading PCI FDDI card, I was intrigued by your
> posting.  I know nothing of plan9, but I found your message while doing
> an AltaVista search on FDDI and PCI.  The Linux 2.0.24 and later kernels
> have a DEFXX.C driver I wrote for Digital's FDDI PCI and EISA
> controllers.  Do you have any idea of how easy it would be to port this
> driver to plan9?
> 
> All of the Linux code is downloadable today, and I can certainly help
> you technically if this was something you were interested in working on.
> Regards.  - Larry 
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> | Larry Stefani                          stefani@lkg...           |
> | Networks Engineering                   Digital Equipment Corporation |
> | WWW: http://www.networks.digital.com/                                |
> | FTP: ftp://ftp.digital.com/pub/DEC/adapters/			       |
> |                     Comments are mine, of course...                  |
> +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
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