From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Sep 28 7:13: 7 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 8485037B40A for ; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 07:13:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by Millions.Ca (8.11.1/8.9.3) id f8SED1w19472 for ; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 08:13:01 -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 smtpdJ19470; Fri Sep 28 08:12:59 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 f8SECwo06106 for ; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 08:12:58 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from stacy@millions.ca) Message-ID: <3BB4856A.4090506@millions.ca> Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 08:12:58 -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: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Token Ring support? References: <3BB3B5FE.32034.12ABA14@localhost> 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 Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: > Hmm, according to document no. FQ3387E on IBM's networking > support site (http://www.networking.ibm.com/support/), this card > has a Tropic chip set. They reference the Linux TokenRing Project, > http://www.linuxtr.net/ . Does this help? Then it should be the same chip set as what is in my "Auto 16/4 Credit Card Adapter" or supported by the same driver anyway. > The card (and the ThinkPad X20) I use are my employers, so I can't > damage it. Also, the only place I have access to Token Ring are at > work. But, I would very much like to have this working, it would be > sooo nice to run FreeBSD at work instead of Linux... Only if you are prepared to do some serious kernel hacking. The base driver is not production quality. If I remember correctly, it comes with a warning that it might even cause social disease :-) and there is no support for the PC Card interface. -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