Subject: Re: PlannetConnect Satellite Receiver in 1.3 - What's the story?
To: Gerald C. Simmons <simmons@darykon.cet.com>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: current-users
Date: 11/24/1997 20:50:37
On Thu, 20 Nov 1997 17:18:22 -0800 (PST) 
 "Gerald C. Simmons" <simmons@darykon.cet.com> wrote:

 > Anyone have info on this?
 > 
 > Anyone know if this could be adapted to support Hughes Network's
 > DirecPC?

I can tell you a little bit about it, since I wrote the driver :-)

Basically, it's for a specific, rather dumb downlink card... all it does
it auto-restart DMA into a ring buffer, which the user process reads.

I'm pretty sure it's not going to work with a DirectPC.

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