From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 29 21:17:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA15126 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 21:17:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA15119 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 21:17:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA01492; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 21:17:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 21:17:05 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Dave Marquardt cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: LAN Support In-Reply-To: <85g1m7oqur.fsf@localhost.zilker.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" On 28 Jan 1998, Dave Marquardt wrote: > Ping Choi writes: > > I noticed in the Lan Drivers Section of the FreeBSD Website under device > > support,it does not list any support for Token Ring NIC cards. Why is > > that? I have a Token Ring LAN at my job and I would like to install > > Because FreeBSD is generally a volunteer project, and no one has > written any drivers for token ring adapters yet. If you want a token > ring driver, write one. Someone is -- they just had a big discussion about it on hackers and it looks like someone who actually knows what they're doing ;) is going to hit it. Someone sent me a contract proposal to pay real money to write a token ring driver; too bad I don't do hardware programming, and the reply bounced. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major