From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 20 10:38:35 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id KAA16834 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 20 Jan 1997 10:38:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from tarpon.exis.net (stefan@tarpon.exis.net [205.252.72.108]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id KAA16829 for ; Mon, 20 Jan 1997 10:38:33 -0800 (PST) Received: (from stefan@localhost) by tarpon.exis.net (8.7.4/8.7.3) id NAA02385; Mon, 20 Jan 1997 13:39:16 -0500 Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 13:39:16 -0500 (EST) From: Stefan Molnar To: Patrick Nadeau cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IBM Token ring driver In-Reply-To: <199701201217.MAA26656@maeve.physics.utoronto.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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. > have you tried olicom? I heard that they are more forgiving with opening up eith driver info. I would like to do it, but I am not a programer, I am a silly person. Stefan -------------------------------------------- Stefan Molnar Team Exis.Net stefan@exis.net Member EFF Slightly Silly Team OS/2 east-coast-ambassador@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU "She turned me into a Newt! A Newt? I got better." -Monty Python --------------------------------------------