From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jun 3 09:24:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA07166 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 3 Jun 1997 09:24:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA07093 for ; Tue, 3 Jun 1997 09:23:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id JAA16789; Tue, 3 Jun 1997 09:20:18 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199706031620.JAA16789@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Tropic token ring driver To: lile@stdio.com (Larry Lile) Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 09:20:17 -0700 (MST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <339429EE.41C6@stdio.com> from "Larry Lile" at Jun 3, 97 10:27:58 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Thanks for the help J"org. > > Now, does anyone have a Token-ring network architechture reference > (IBM Part # SC30-3374-02) to donate (or loan) to the cause? My > friend is trying to find his old copy, but that could take a while. > If not I guess I can just cough up the 76.50 for it myself, and it > only took about 5 days to get the card ref from IBM so this shouldn't > take much longer. I have one on my desk, but it belongs to the company, so I can't send it to you. 8-(. > I remember someone talking about the arp code for a fddi card being > similar, but I cant seem to locate that again. So if you're still > out there drop me a line. You basically need an 802.3 LLC layer implementation. The FDDI code mostly implements this, and the X.25 code which we threw away (because we made some gratuitous changes and didn't change all the dependent code) also implements parts of the necessary state machine. If you could do it generically, you will be able to support NetBEUI (the reason the thing is sitting on my desk is from a company project to provide a NetBEUI for Linux -- as a binary kernel module; sorry, no BSD binary distribution available). The original posting claiming "mostly compatible" was from the FDDI driver autor, so you should be able to get the information scanning the archives for "FDDI" AND "driver", or from the code. Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.