Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 15:07:30 -0400 (EDT) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> To: jon stuart <jstuart@aldigital.co.uk> Cc: tokenring@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freeBSD & tokenring support Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980518145753.17033E-100000@sasami.jurai.net> In-Reply-To: <3560753B.2DF64C17@aldigital.co.uk>
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On Mon, 18 May 1998, jon stuart wrote:
> hi there, i came across your name in relation to tokenring support for
> freebsd. i'd be grateful you could ponder a couple of questions for me.
>
> i have two tokenring cards, a madge smart 16/4 pci ringnode and a 3com
> 3c319 isa card. i'm trying to configure a box merely to receive and
> send mail over SMTP using freeBSD.
You mean the 3c619 maybe? It does have an IBM compatibility mode which
makes it fully compatible with the IBM shared memory adapters.
> i can't find mention of either of these cards on the project's webpage.
> are they likely to be compatible with the IBM / SMC drivers?
Nope, the Madge cards use the TMS380c{16,26,30} chip (as do the Proteon
and others).
I've really got to finish my hardware page as it should provide a bit of
information about cards that are likely to use the same driver.
> if not then we're willing to get a new card to get this up and running.
> which would be a safer bet with regards to driver stability and ease of
> configuring?
There is a Madge chip on the card we need doc for. If you've got the
ability to persuade Madge to release the appropriate programming info
under agreeable terms then by all means lets add the Madge cards to our
desired/likely list for hardware driver support.
I've got examples of nearly all ISA and EISA Token Ring cards out there
but so far it looks like only the SMC and the IBM shared memory cards have
enough information available to do a driver at this time.
I'm working on the SMC cards (slowly) and Larry Lile is doing the IBM
shared memory cards. Your best bet so far will be an IBM shared memory
card as my efforts are proceding at a somewhat slower pace due to other
calls on my time. (And my ISA SMC card has not arrived yet.)
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