From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 20 08:55:59 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id IAA11302 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 20 Jan 1997 08:55:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from maeve.physics.utoronto.ca (maeve.physics.utoronto.ca [128.100.78.132]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id IAA11296 for ; Mon, 20 Jan 1997 08:55:55 -0800 (PST) Received: (from pnadeau@localhost) by maeve.physics.utoronto.ca (8.6.12/8.6.12) id MAA26656 for hackers@FreeBSD.org; Mon, 20 Jan 1997 12:17:14 GMT From: Patrick Nadeau Message-Id: <199701201217.MAA26656@maeve.physics.utoronto.ca> Subject: IBM Token ring driver To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 12:17:14 +0000 () X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I would like to volunteer to write an IBM Token ring driver. I work in a Token ring shop so I find myself having to route everything through a Linux box to reach the corporate network :-( I can't say how much time it will take to write it though. If you have any timeline you were thinking of you can let me know. Some changes will have to be made to the arp code since it now is hard coded to ethernet also. I have the driver probing and attaching the card right now which was easy. The hard part was getting technical info from IBM! After two weeks of calling for a few hours each day and after talking to more than 100 different people I got the line that the information was ``IBM confidential'' and that I would have to sign a non-disclosure agreement! I managed to find the information a month later by total fluke and the most ironic thing is that it is _not_ confidential. I think there should be a law making it illegal to ship hardware without technical documentation.