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- The one file included in this directory contains version 10.x of the
- packet drivers provided by Crynwr Software. These drivers were
- formerly provided by Clarkson College of Potsdam, NY. With this
- release of the drivers Clarkson is officially out of the packet
- driver business.
-
- Listed below is the text of the message Russell Nelson, developer and
- supporter of the drivers, sent announcing the availability of
- version 10.x. Please note the warnings and proceed with caution.
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- Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1992 11:16:22 EST
- From: Russell Nelson <nelson@crynwr.com>
- Organization: Crynwr Software; 11 Grant St.; Potsdam, NY 13676;315-268-1925
- Reply-To: Russell Nelson <crynwr!nelson@uu.psi.com>
- To: drivers@sun.soe.clarkson.edu
- Subject: BETA test of 10.x release
-
- The 10.x packet drivers are on asylum.sf.ca.us for anonymous ftp, in
- beta-packet-drivers. There are three files, drivers.zip,
- drivers1.zip, and drivers2.zip. The first one contains executables
- and documentation. The other two contain sources.
-
- To the best of my knowledge, these drivers work. I have not made any
- "dangerous" changes since the 9.x release. HOWEVER, please treat
- them as a beta release until we've gotten some reports that they
- work. I haven't announced these anywhere else -- I want to hear from
- you before I do.
-
- Of special interest are PKTTRAF.COM, a graphical display of network
- traffic, and WINPKT.COM, a shim to make packet drivers work with
- Windows 3.0 Enhanced mode.
-
- The DEPCA driver works on the revision E DEPCA and DE-100 that I
- have. I haven't tried it on a DE-200, but I used the most general
- possible algorithm.
-
- The SLIP8250 driver now transmits using a busy-wait loop, which
- should be more reliable than the old interrupt method. If it proves
- to be unacceptably slow, I have some improvements to the interrupt
- method that may work.
-
- Still no Everex or UB-NIU or EXOS 205T packet drivers.
-
- Still doesn't work on some WD Elite-16 boards.
- --
- -russ <nelson@crynwr.com> I'm proud to be a humble Quaker! Until my domain
- gets registered, you may need to use <nelson%crynwr.com@uu.psi.com>.