Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 15:49:32 -0800 From: fyeung@fyeung8.netific.com (Francis Yeung) To: hackers@freebsd.org, hal@vailsys.com Subject: Re: IBM Token ring driver Message-ID: <9701202349.AA07519@fyeung8.netific.com>
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Hal, How you talk to Madge by any chance ? If Olicom uses TI or NS chipsets, there are plenty of information around. There is a IBM Token Ring packet driver with source. Will this help. You need some LLC code which can be cut and pasted from the other sources. Francis > From root@fyeung25.netific.com Mon Jan 20 15:27 PST 1997 > Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 15:41:40 -0600 > From: Hal Snyder <hal@vailsys.com> > Mime-Version: 1.0 > To: hackers@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: IBM Token ring driver > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > Stefan Molnar wrote: > > > 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. > > I talked to Olicom a year ago about writing a FreeBSD token driver for > their PCI token ring card, since my employer at the time was stuck with > a lot of legacy dinosaur equipment. > > The response I got was that driver writers' documentation was trade > secret and they had absolutely no intention of telling anyone how their > superlative token ring card works. > > After that, all nodes added to the LAN were ether. We had that luxury, > since cabling was CAT-5 and the main router had both types of > interface. :) > > Hal > >
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