Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 11:27:16 -0400 (EDT) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> To: George Morgan <George_Morgan@BayNetworks.COM> Cc: freebsd-tokenring@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Madge NIC support... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980420112046.523M-100000@sasami.jurai.net> In-Reply-To: <19980420142356.AAA8852@gmorgan-pc.corpwest.baynetworks.com>
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On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, George Morgan wrote: > I have been contacted by Madge and have been given a license agreement > to sign in order to obtain their "SDK". Sounds like they have tried to > make their software interface pretty much the same for all of their > cards (with notable exceptions I'm sure) So, I am haggling with them to > see if I can get a license agreement where I can put the license text at > the beginning of the source and distribute the source. I think they are > willing but they still might force me the distribute their part as > object code (which is not really acceptable...) This may turn out to be a real problem... There are quite a few Token Ring NIC vendors who have rather nice products that would be wonderful to support. Unfortunately these products are moving towards a legacy status and no longer provoke a desire to have them supported. Many cards will work dual mode; that is they will emulate the IBM shared memory adapters... The 3c619 is one of these (3com product). Other cards like the Proteon are based on a TI chipset which we can get doc for even if Proteon declines to provide us with information. Proteon acutally sells a DDK and has a part # on their webpage but as far as I'm concerned, unless we can get the programming information free or for cost of shipping I'm not interested in working with the card. It only took me about 2 months to bug SMC into providing me the doccumentation for the TokenCard Elite chipset; persistence pays off. To everyone else; if you would like to help or test, go out and buy a couple of IBM shared memory 4/16 cards as these will probably be the first devices to have driver support. I'm working on the SMC TCE driver but that won't happen until we've got working IBM drivers. And George, keep up the good work. :) /* Matthew N. Dodd | A memory retaining a love you had for life winter@jurai.net | As cruel as it seems nothing ever seems to http://www.jurai.net/~winter | go right - FLA M 3.1:53 */ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-tokenring" in the body of the message
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