Subj : Re: Removing Linux boot
To   : ALAN ZISMAN
From : MARTIN ATKINS
Date : Mon Aug 14 2000 11:56 am

-=> ALAN ZISMAN wrote to TOM LAERMANS <=-

 AZ> 1) I LIKE Corel Linux... but I haven't been able to get my network
 AZ> adapter (Xircom PC Card) to work under any Linux that I've tried... and
 AZ> I really need Internet and network access to be productive.

 Linux Ethernet-Howto
 by Paul Gortmaker
 v2.66, 6 July 1998

 5.37.  Xircom

 For the longest time, Xircom wouldn't release the programming
 information required to write a driver, unless you signed your life
 away. Apparently enough linux users have pestered them for driver
 support (they claim to support all popular networking operating
 systems...) so that they have changed their policy to allow
 documentation to be released without having to sign a non-disclosure
 agreement, and apparently they will release the source code to the SCO
 driver as well.  If you want to verify that this is the case, you can
 reach Xircom at 1-800-874-7875, 1-800-438-4526 or +1-818-878-7600.

 However, at the moment nobody has rushed forth offering to write any
 drivers, so most of their products are still unsupported, with the
 exception of a few PCMCIA devices.

 5.37.1.  PE1, PE2, PE3-10B*

 Status -- Not Supported

 Not to get your hopes up, but if you have one of these parallel port
 adaptors, you may be able to use it in the DOS emulator with the
 Xircom-supplied DOS drivers. You will have to allow DOSEMU access to
 your parallel port, and will probably have to play with SIG (DOSEMU's
 Silly Interrupt Generator).

 AZ> 2) No, W2K has no Fdisk.

 AZ> 3) What I may end up doing is run the W9x Fdisk /mbr... then run the
 AZ> Win2K Setup's Repair module and see if that will restore the MBR for
 AZ> NT/W2K. Or I may just leave well enough alone-- leaving the LILO boot
 AZ> manager is not that big a deal.
fdisk /mbr is recommended for DOS, WIN95 and NT. Don't forget even if
it screws up the MBR it leaves your partitions in tact, you only need
reinstall lilo. As an aside lilo will boot up to six systems, so you
could boot Win98, W2K, NT or Linux.

L8r. :)
  
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