From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 29 15:36:06 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA25062 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 29 Oct 1997 15:36:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from out1.ibm.net (out1.ibm.net [165.87.194.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA24994 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 1997 15:35:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mouth@ibm.net) Received: from slip129-37-195-76.nc.us.ibm.net (slip129-37-195-76.nc.us.ibm.net [129.37.195.76]) by out1.ibm.net (8.8.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id XAA32950 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 1997 23:35:50 GMT From: mouth@ibm.net (John Kelly) To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Does freebsd support Token-Ring adapter? Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 00:37:12 GMT Message-ID: <3457d491.205257086@smtp-gw01.ny.us.ibm.net> References: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.01/16.397 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id PAA25054 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 29 Oct 1997 12:28:14 -0800 (PST), Doug White wrote: >> whether freebsd supports Token-Ring adapter. >Not until someone writes a driver for TokenRing cards. I recently bought a large lot of SMC EISA 16Mb token ring cards at an online auction for pennies on the dollar. If any serious developer wants to hack an EISA token ring driver, I'll donate a couple of cards. Of course, you'll need your own hub or MAU to plug them in. You should be able to use the Linux token ring support as a base of code from which to extract knowledge and ideas. Just remember you can always copy ideas, but not the way they're expressed. John