From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 20 13:08:52 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id NAA27883 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 20 Jan 1997 13:08:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id NAA27874 for ; Mon, 20 Jan 1997 13:08:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from current1.whistle.com (current1.whistle.com [207.76.205.22]) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id MAA28948; Mon, 20 Jan 1997 12:39:43 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <32E3D7B9.167EB0E7@whistle.com> Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 12:38:17 -0800 From: Julian Elischer Organization: Whistle Communications X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Patrick Nadeau CC: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IBM Token ring driver References: <199701201217.MAA26656@maeve.physics.utoronto.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Patrick Nadeau wrote: > > I would like to volunteer to write an IBM Token ring > driver. YAY!!! if you need help let me know!! > > I work in a Token ring shop so I find myself having to route everything > through a Linux box to reach the corporate network :-( so you can read the linux driver as well.. that's a good start! > > 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. the arp code can be done separatlyi if you are in a bind.. see the appletalk arp code.. I hope to modify the appletalk code to use the regular arp code, but haven't had the time yet.. > > 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. yeah!