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From: fyeung@fyeung8.netific.com (Francis Yeung)
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To: hackers@freebsd.org, hal@vailsys.com
Subject: Re: IBM Token ring driver
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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>
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> 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
> 
>