Mark Martin wrote:

> In what state does QLwIP exist today?

Undocumented and untouched for many years. Requiring QDOS Classic.

> Could it be licensed under an open source license?

GPL planned.

> If the answer is no, I may be motivated to start an open project if I could
> find help answering the question of hardware support. To my knowledge, no
> known ethernet capable hardware support exists for any networking library
> on any "QL" platform.

There are ethernet cards for Q40 and Q60.
QLwIP supports them.

> I have often pondered what it would take to make
> tulip or ne2000 support available for SMSQ on my QXL, but that would
> require a working DOS-like build environment and x86 assembly coding
> knowledge, neither of which I am enthusiastic about at this moment.

tulip or ne2000 support would not be sufficient, as SMSQ/E has no TCP/IP
stack.

Peter

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