From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Sep 26 9:56:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from Millions.Ca (h-207-228-120-32.gen.cadvision.com [207.228.120.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECA3E37B417 for ; Wed, 26 Sep 2001 09:56:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by Millions.Ca (8.11.1/8.9.3) id f8QGuiJ15451 for ; Wed, 26 Sep 2001 10:56:44 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from stacy@Millions.Ca) Received: from Cedar.Millions.Ca(192.168.64.8) via SMTP by mail-gw-0.millions.ca, id smtpdZ15449; Wed Sep 26 10:56:34 2001 Received: from millions.ca (Maple.Millions.Ca [192.168.64.2]) by cedar.millions.ca (8.11.1/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f8QGuXo19106 for ; Wed, 26 Sep 2001 10:56:34 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from stacy@millions.ca) Message-ID: <3BB208C1.8060201@millions.ca> Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 10:56:33 -0600 From: Stacy Millions Organization: Millions Consulting Limited User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010726 Netscape6/6.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Token Ring support? References: <5.1.0.14.2.20010926083956.024b1440@194.184.65.7> <200109260757.f8Q7vJ765649@harmony.village.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Warner Losh wrote: > Gianmarco Giovannelli writes: > : The token ring support web site is at: > : http://www.jurai.net/~winter/tr/tr.html > : > : But I think you hardly find support for the pcmcia card there :-| > > But I think that adding support for the right chipset will be easy. > > Also, given that pcmcia token ring cards are real cheap on ebay, you > can buy one to destroy to find out what's inside. About a year ago, I started hacking on a driver for the IBM Token Ring PCMCIA. It is the same thing as the IBM Shared Memory ISA card. I started with http://www.jurai.net/~winter/tr/ibm-shared-mem.html And then started hacking at making the PCMCIA attach/detach work. I only got about half way through probing the thing before it would panic. This card requires you to do some strange configuration on some ISA bus address to make it initialize its PCMCIA interface. I succeeded at doing the ISA config, but never made it through the PCMCIA probe and attach. Then I got a huge headache and ran out of the time required to work on it any more :-( -stacy -- Nothing spoils fun like finding out it builds character. - Calvin Stacy Millions stacy@millions.ca Millions Consulting Limited To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message