ISA nics and DOS TCP/IP

[Michael B. Brutman]

Jay West wrote:
> I have one of the parallel port to ethernet devices... a Xircom. I 
> wonder if anyone ever reverse engineered the user interface to the 
> parallel port for it :)
> 
> Jay
> 

Somebody tried - they were working on a Linux device driver for it, and 
you can search to find the results.  In a nutshell, Xircom never 
released the specs, and it was too much of a pain to reverse engineer. 
Hence it is not supported by Linux.