nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) (03/23/89)
Version 2.0 of the freely copyable packet drivers is now available. Included in this mail message are the changes from the previous version and instructions on obtaining the drivers. -russ Changes from version 3 to 2.0 of the drivers: Version numbering now changed. If the skeleton changes, the major version is incremented and all the minor versions are reset to zero. **** As a result of the changes to support version 1.08 of the packet driver **** spec, minor changes had to be made to every driver. **** As of this writing, the following drivers are untested: **** ni5010. **** Please mail to (Russ) nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu if you can verify that **** these drivers work. Support for version 1.08 of the packet driver spec included. Bob Clements' 3c503 driver added. See README.503. Some comments improved. BAD_COMMAND checking code fixed. cld instructions added to ensure that DF=0. NI5210 sped up slightly -- look at movemem in ni5210.asm for an especially fast routine to move memory around. Spurious error condition that caused NCSA Telnet to fail in send_pkt function removed. These drivers are available from the Clarkson archive-server as well as by FTP. If you don't know how to use the archive server, send a mail message consisting of the word "help" to one of the addresses given below. For those who can FTP, a self-extracting ZOO archive can be found on sun.soe.clarkson.edu in pub/ka9q as drivers.exe. Clarkson Archive Server // commands = help, index, send, path archive-server@sun.soe.clarkson.edu archive-server%sun.soe.clarkson.edu@omnigate.bitnet dumb1!dumb2!dumb3!smart!sun.soe.clarkson.edu!archive-server -- --russ (nelson@clutx [.bitnet | .clarkson.edu]) If you can, help others. If you can't, at least don't hurt others--the Dalai Lama