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- From: steve@europa.esd.sgi.com (Motorin' Flarey Henderson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
- Subject: Re: Parallel Port Ethernet throughput??
- Message-ID: <unq5um4@zuni.esd.sgi.com>
- Date: 11 Jan 93 05:51:57 GMT
- References: <1993Jan6.064846.2871@cs.uoregon.edu> <1993Jan8.112019.13696@camaro.uucp>
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- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
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- In <1993Jan8.112019.13696@camaro.uucp> tfoley@camaro.uucp (Tim Foley) writes:
- > On a side note, has anyone pulled one of these adapters apart and seen if
- >they are buildable as a project? Shelling out $800 for an ethernet adapter
- >is a bit nuts, and I would rather play around with building one anyways.
-
- You can get a Xircom parallel port ethernet adapter for less than $350. Other
- less prestigious brands are less money. The hardware part is the easier part
- to build. Glue an ethernet chip set and some pals together and you have it.
- Well, maybe it's not that easy. You do have to have a pretty thorough
- knowledge of ethernet.
- >
- > Do these things need drivers (software) ?
-
- Yes, quite a lot of software. This is by far the more difficult part. Of
- course, I would take this with a grain of salt as I'm a hardware designer...
-
- In any case, I wouldn't tackle it and I'm pretty familiar with ethernet. I'd
- rather make my own expansion chassis as a project...
-
-
- --
- steve valin steve@sgi.com
- It's like deja vu all over again...
-