From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 7 03:16:34 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFE38106564A for ; Sat, 7 Apr 2012 03:16:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amvandemore@gmail.com) Received: from mail-we0-f182.google.com (mail-we0-f182.google.com [74.125.82.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D2278FC08 for ; Sat, 7 Apr 2012 03:16:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wern13 with SMTP id n13so2249394wer.13 for ; Fri, 06 Apr 2012 20:16:32 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=qHnAjXR5AZQWQsApMJr2YxccGi2QMLZaK9J53Z2rk54=; b=XFYGWBL7GvDBSqP+kREEZKdiN9pCApwwL7uGtH7zRgl5yidX/8hOsRSZYH2fX73Qgh F/oy3ycMzT3BbO/LJq12y6k5Njg0mgPw6ryWCipKG4iHAS9BHYHds2sM+SYH7uTYpmMh rhkPiE+dXZ1pvXs7Qn9weVFbdjjNLP9DQqBU1lnK0IehK0aTkKjRH5eUgkQahkagf8xD bze9sk/xMOgOH/rerYVMJm/Zz4cF5GhdAOodENT2lhKApFSk4B9dG+iGsGG6aroU4pTE lTFLKPrKa0M+QmoUB+9mYMREaGZipg4TnRq1nocgqAOr0mFIC6miWwgCb/4wpx56+KhT PqXQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.180.102.102 with SMTP id fn6mr686180wib.10.1333768592397; Fri, 06 Apr 2012 20:16:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.223.94.73 with HTTP; Fri, 6 Apr 2012 20:16:32 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <000001cd1465$f8d56740$ea8035c0$@net> References: <000301cd1412$b39c1550$1ad43ff0$@net> <000801cd141b$01c9fe60$055dfb20$@net> <000001cd1465$f8d56740$ea8035c0$@net> Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2012 22:16:32 -0500 Message-ID: From: Adam Vande More To: Jay West Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: mikel king , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Token Ring (really) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2012 03:16:34 -0000 On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 9:27 PM, Jay West wrote: > Well, found the XP drivers for the card (it's a Madge Smart MK4 PCI > adapter, > not olicom as I thought). > > Ndisgen seemed to work fine > > After kldloading the resulting module, ifconfig shows: > ndis0: flags=8843 metric 0 mtu 1500 > ether 00:00:00:ee:ed:c6 > media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX) > status: no carrier > > It is connected though (via DB9, not RJ45). I don't see how you can specify > 4mbps or 16mbps, attempting the oltr media types for example "UTP/4mbps" > says no such media type. > > I am wondering if the ndisgen utility is only designed for ndis Ethernet > cards instead of my case - ndis token ring. :( > It is still in the 7.x branch: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/stable/7/sys/contrib/dev/oltr/ Otherwise, it's time to abandon steamships for airplanes. Sounds like you have a primed business opportunity just waiting to be exploited. -- Adam Vande More